Iraq

This year, Baghdad’s Christians are celebrating the season of peace and goodwill discreetly and in fear of further attacks on their churches, in a climate of rising violence in war-torn Iraq. “Lots of people have told me they’re afraid to come,” says Pastor Nabil Sara at the Baptist Evangelist Church …

Furthermore, according to www.ankawa.com, on December 20, 2004, an unidentified group in Mosul kidnapped Michael Daddeza, a teacher (50 years old, married with children), from the Assyrian town of Baghdeda, as he was returning from the elementary school of Hawsalan village where he taught. Michael was with his friend who …

Monday, December 20, 2004. In a statement by Bishop Mar Polous Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic Bishop in Mosul, to www.ankawa.com, three churches were attacked in Mosul today. At 2:30 p.m. local time, the bishopcrate of Mar (St.) Afram of the Syriac Orthodox in Hay al-Shurta (Police quarters) was attacked …

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Leaders of Iraq’s dwindling Christian population say that bombings of their churches and attacks against their communities may force them to take up guns. Two more churches were bombed in Mosul last week, and some Christians say that extremist Muslims are terrorizing them with the intent of …

The Iraqi national elections scheduled for January 30, 2005 are going to elect the 275 representatives of the Iraqi National Assembly (parliament).  The people in north of Iraq’s Kurdish enclave will additionally elect the 111 members of the Kurdish Regional Parliament in north of Iraq. On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, …

I am referring to the Assyrians, also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs. They are the only people native to Iraq, and they are Christian. We all know the Assyrians from our ancient history classes, or from the Bible; they are the builders of the great Mesopotamian civilizations when that area, …

He said, “The ChaldoAssyrian Christian community is highly vulnerable and under siege. I posit that there is no danger of the Kurds or Arabs vanishing from Iraq, or of their communities being reduced to a tiny remnant, but there is – this is not alarmist – a real and genuine …

Two more churches were bombed in Mosul last week, the latest attacks, and some Christians say extremist Muslims are terrorizing them with the intent of ousting them and seizing their houses and belongings. Iraq is home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, made up largely of …

The foreign minister met Pope John Paul II Dec. 13, exactly one year after U.S. troops captured Saddam Hussein and less than a week after an Armenian Catholic Church and a Chaldean Catholic bishop’s residence were damaged in an attack by armed men. Zebari also met with Cardinal Angelo Sodano, …

“We’ve been here for hundreds of years. We should be regarded as first-class and not third-class citizens as we were being treated under Saddam’s regime,” said Fouad Boudagh, head of the National Caldani (Chaldean) Council. Iraqi Christians, who make up just three percent of Iraq’s 26 million people, are estimated …