A worshipper lights a candle at the Chaldean Catholic Church of St. Joseph in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on November 7, 2020. A few hundred thousand Christians are left in Iraq.

Sabah Arar
A worshipper lights a candle at the Chaldean Catholic Church of St. Joseph in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on November 7, 2020. A few hundred thousand Christians are left in Iraq.

The 2021 “World Watch List” of nations most culpable for the persecution of Christians has revealed that preexisting trends of 2019 were amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.