. >> welce to christian world news everyone i am wendy griffith. >> and i am george tmas. iraq christians have suffered deadliest attacks since 2003. they are taking a bold step to gain serity. >> these are christians to trace their roots to the time of noah. iraqiare calling for this place to be officially declared a christian ovince. >> we have 500,000 christian refugees. our position has been clear to the government, these people

. >> welce to christian world news everyone i am wendy griffith. >> and i am george tmas. iraq christians have suffered deadliest attacks since 2003. they are taking a bold step to gain serity. >> these are christians to trace their roots to the time of noah. iraqiare calling for this place to be officially declared a christian ovince. >> we have 500,000 christian refugees. our position has been clear to the government, these people will not come home untilthey have a place to go to. >> ken joseph is with the assyri alliance. they recently met to talk about forming a christian province. joseph says getting the different groups to agree says it was nothing short of a miracle. >> they put away all their arguments and did it. >> prime targets are muslim extremists biggest attack on october 31st, members of an al-qaeda group attacked a church in baghdad leaving 68 people dead. they are wondering if it is time to leave the homeland despite caing to state. >> these difficult days appealing to you to be consnt to the faith and love and soil of this homeland. >> hundreds of christ

. >> and i am wendy griffith. chrisans in nigeria said their government isn doing enough. thousands killed inrep cent attacks in northern and central nigeria. several human rights groups calling on america and united nations to intervene. gary lane. >> reporter: unlike many previous raids, militant muslims attacked them late at night instead of daylight. >> when you attack nept people unpreparedthat is a massacre. >> many villagers were hacked to death and burned aliv children as i don't think as 5 years old were among those murdered. >> the whole new level completely, that we haven't seen before. they are nomads who weapon of choice is ma shetty and bows and arrows, we wont to understand thousand they got these weapons. >> they promised to punish the perpetrators. another attack against a christian village came last october again in the middle of the night, again automatic weapons used. >> mark arrived on the scene shortly after the raid. >> i got there around 4:00 a.m. there were 6 people massacred, you know. within a pool of their blood, houses were set ablaze. 21 house

welcome everyone to this special christmas edition of world worli am wendy griffith. christmas season is the time we celebrate the coming of jesus the messiah. it is a testament that prophets wrote about hundreds of years before he was bn. starti with the christmas story. cbn's gordan robertson explains. >> everyday religious jews pray for the coming of the messiah. >> traditional jews believe in every generation there is a potential messiah. if the generation is worthy, there is a son of david according to the prophecies, greater than david. >> old testament says the messiah uld be a son of david, born in bethlehem, called out of egypt and raised in nazareth. he would be a teacher and a healer. he would calm can the seas and cleanse the temple. he would be welcomed as a king and killed as a criminal. then 3 days after hisdeath he would rise from the dead. these are a few of the prophesies written by the messiah. only 1 man in history fulfilled them all. >> if we rightly understand the hebrew bibleeither jesus is our messiah or there could never be a messiah. no quest