06/30/2008
For Iraqi Christians, Money Bought Survival
MOSUL, Iraq — As priests do everywhere, Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, the leader of the Chaldean Catholics in this ancient city, gathered alms at Sunday Mass. But for years the money
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04/06/2008
Christian Priest Killed in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Assyrian Orthodox priest was killed in a drive-by shooting Saturday in Baghdad, police and an assistant said, the latest attack against Iraq's Christian minority.
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03/02/2008
Three Christians killed in kidnapping of Mosul bishop buried in Karamles
The funerals were held this morning for the driver and two bodyguards. The same city also holds the tomb of Fr Ragheed, killed last year in the area where
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03/01/2008
Gunmen kidnap Iraqi Chaldean Catholic archbishop
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul on Friday in the northern Iraqi city and killed his driver and two guards, police said
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01/09/2008
Blasts Rock Iraq Churches
CWN - ISTANBUL, - Four Iraqi churches and three convents were damaged in coordinated bomb blasts Sunday morning, the day many Iraqi Christians celebrate either Epiphany or Christmas Eve according to some Eastern liturgical calendars. At least six
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12/12/2007
Iraqi Christian woman and brother found dead in city with rise in religious vigilante killings
BAGHDAD: The bodies of a Christian woman and her brother were found in a garbage dump, police and church officials said Tuesday in the southern city of Basra, where women have grown increasingly fearful of religious vigilantes blamed for the deaths of at least 40
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12/10/2007
Christian girl killed by gunmen in Mosul
Ninewa, Dec 9, (VOI) – Unidentified gunmen killed a Christian girl in the area of al-Nabi Younes (the prophet Jonah) in central Mosul on Sunday
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10/02/2007
Iraqi Christians forced to leave
(washingtontimes.com) Nabil Comanny and his family endured the dead bodies in the streets, the roaming kidnap gangs and the continuing...
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09/04/2007
FAITH UNDER FIRE; 36 church members disappear, 1 returns
Three dozen members of one Christian church in Iraq disappeared over the course of a week, and only one returned, according to a minister who is warning of the increase of persecution of Christians in
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07/27/2007
Sunni, Shiites unite to wage jihad on Iraqi non-Muslims
(washtimes.com) Iraq's outnumbered Christians and other religious minority groups are targets of a terror campaign and...
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07/12/2007
Iran: 21 women arrested in Ghazvin over Islamic dress codes police say
Twenty one women have been arrested in the Iranian city of Ghazvin, 100 km north of Tehran, since 21 May and 3,264 reported to the authorities for failing to respect strict Islamic dress codes, police officials said Thursday.
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07/06/2007
Islamic Group Driving Christians Away From Mosul
A statement by an Islamic group that calls itself the Islamic Emirate of Mosul threatened to kidnap or
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06/28/2007
Two more Christians killed in an attack in Mosul
The victims are two Assyrian men from the National Union of Beth Nahrin. Persecution of Iraqi Christians continues in order to prevent them from taking part in the political process.
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06/12/2007
Jihad Etiquette: The Guidebook for Taking a Life
(nytimes.com) We were in a small house in Zarqa, Jordan, trying to interview two heavily bearded Islamic...
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06/09/2007
Baghdad Christians threatened with tax, eviction
(sacbee.com) An al Qaida-affiliated insurgent group is giving Christians in Baghdad a stark set of options...
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06/04/2007
Chaldean Catholic Priest and three deacons shot dead in Iraq
A Chaldean Catholic Priest Father Ragheed Ganni, 35, and three deacons, were shot dead last night in northern Iraq.
The murder took place right after Mass in front of the Holy Spirit Church in the Nur District of Mosul, where Father Ragheed Ganni was parish priest.
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05/09/2007
Christians fleeing Iraq after death threats
(telegraph.co.uk) Iraq's Christian community is close to extinction as thousands are forced to...
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05/04/2007
Iraq: Christians face mounting threats, MP says
(adnki.com) Christians in Iraqi are facing a mounting number of threats forcing them into exile...
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04/20/2007
More on Muslims Forcing Christian Assyrians in Baghdad to Pay 'Protection Tax'
On 3-18-2007 AINA reported that Muslims were forcing the Christian Assyrians in the Dora Neighborhood of Baghdad to Pay the jizya, the 'Protection Tax' demanded from Christians and Jews by
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04/01/2007
We must not let this ancient Church slide into oblivion
Iraq’s Assyrian Christians face extinction four years after the toppling of Saddam, says Ed West
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03/28/2007
Two Chaldean Catholic nuns stabbed to death Kirkuk home
BAGHDAD: Two elderly sisters, both Chaldean Catholic nuns, were stabbed to death in their home in Kirkuk
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03/20/2007
Muslims Forcing Christian Assyrians in Baghdad Neighborhood to Pay 'Protection Tax'
Baghdad (AINA) -- Muslims in the Dora neighborhood of Iraq are forcing Assyrians
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01/04/2007
Ministry in Iraq
CWNews.com –Iraq (MNN) -- Violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Iraq predictably rose in the days following Saddam Hussein's execution.
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12/30/2006
Iraq Christian Exodus
These Christian Iraqi children are able to sing in freedom--now that their families have fled the violence in Bagdad. One year ago, this village in northern Iraq did not exist. Now, sixty
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12/18/2006
Christmas in Mosul under threat of sharia
A campaign against “non-Muslim dress” is under way in the Iraqi city, targeting mainly women and Christians. Flyers dictate that women should wear a headscarf, that men and women cannot sit next to each other and that soap is forbidden, because “it did not exist in Muhammad’s time”. We report the misery of Christians and an appeal of Patriarch Delly for fasting and prayer
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12/06/2006
Christian leader in Mosul kidnapped and killed
The man was a leader of the local Presbyterian Church. There is still no news about a Chaldean priest who was kidnapped on Monday. Patriarch Delly has issued an appeal for his release.
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11/13/2006
IRAQ: TERRORISTS BLAST CHURCH
(Compass Direct News) – Unknown assailants bombed the entrance of a Catholic church in Mosul last week, destroying three sets of doors as well as windows in the church, monastery
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10/30/2006
14 Year Old Assyrian Boy Decapitated By Muslim Group
(AINA) -- According to the Assyrian website ankawa.com, a 14 year old Christian Assyrian boy, Ayad Tariq, from Baqouba, Iraq was decapitated at his work place on October 21.
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10/13/2006
Over 35,000 Christians have fled Iraq
(jpost.com) More than 35,000 Iraqi Christians have fled to Syria to escape the violence in their country, the leader of an Iraqi Christian group said Thursday. Christians, who make up three percent of Iraq's 26 million people, are leaving because of individual...
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08/09/2006
Iran: "Widow of Allah" And Her Jihad Army Of 56,000 Suicide Martyrs
A woman journalist in Iran has boasted that she has managed to recruit 56,000 Iranians, one third of these being women, to act as suicide bombers, states AKI.
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03/23/2006
Jihad Doctor Murdered Dozens of Wounded Iraqi Soldiers...
When policemen, soldiers and officials in Kirkuk who were injured in insurgent attacks arrived in the emergency room of the hospital, they hoped their chances of surviving had gone up as doctors tended their wounds
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03/19/2006
Saddam's Philippines Terror Connection
SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq
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02/04/2006
Iraqi Christians Fear More Attacks
CWNews.com– The car bombs that hit four Iraqi churches last week killed three people.
The bombs did little damage to property, but the greatest impact of these attacks is the dread that comes upon the Christian
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01/30/2006
Bombs Target Four Iraqi Churches; 3 Dead
Car bombs exploded in a synchronized spree of attacks outside at least four churches in Baghdad
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12/10/2005
No Contact From Activists' Kidnappers on Deadline Day
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Kidnappers holding four Westerners made no contact with Iraqi authorities on Saturday, the day they had set as a deadline to kill the Christian peace activists unless U.S. and Iraqi authorities release all prisoners, the interior ministry said
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