Will Condi Help Persecuted Christians?

Simon Caldwell pens an article for the Daily Mail (a UK site) called Church calls for action over gruesome violence toward Christians in Iraq .  Here's a snippet...

Soaring violence against Christians in Iraq – including the alleged crucifixion of a teenage boy in Basra - has prompted the Catholic Church to call for a safe haven to protect minority groups as the country slides toward civil war.

The American Catholic bishops have also asked US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to grant asylum to hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians who have fled their homes to escape persecution.

They told her that they were deeply alarmed by the "rapidly deteriorating situation of Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq".