Iraq

Members of the churches, one Armenian, the other Chaldean, said gunmen burst in, forced people to leave and set off explosions inside the buildings, damaging them but hurting no one. Smoke poured from the Armenian church and flames could be seen inside the Chaldean church, Reuters reporters said. It was …

Deputy provincial governor Khasro Gouran said one blast struck a church about 2:30 p.m. in eastern Mosul’s Wihda neighborhood, wounding three people. An hour later, gunmen stormed a church in western Mosul, ordering a handful of people outside before bombing it, Gouran said. There were no casualties. The religious denominations …

“This is the third time our churches — Catholic or Orthodox — have been attacked,” the patriarch told Catholic News Service in a Nov. 9 telephone interview from Baghdad. Car bombers targeted churches in August and again in October. Three people died and more than 30 were injured when the …

A guard at the St. Bahnam and Sheik Matti Syriac Orthodox Church in the capital’s Doura neighborhood said the militants drove up in a pickup truck. “They were all armed,” said Khalaf Enad. “They quickly poured out of the car, pointed their weapons at me and said ‘Get in.’ They …

“Those who come now say it’s getting worse day by day. Christians cannot go out to work, to shop or to pray without risking their lives,” said one Iraqi man. On a recent October evening, families sat on plastic chairs in the darkened street and spoke quietly of their experiences. …

October 27 An Assyrian Christian Woman, around 35-40 years-old, was killed this morning in the Iqtisadiyin Neighborhood of Mosul, which lies on the right bank of the Tigris River. The reason for her killing was that she did not wear a Hijab during the month of Ramadan. The Assyrian woman …

Stephen Pound MP and other speakers at the meeting, jointly organised by the Assyrian Democratic Movement (UK branch) and Jubilee Campaign, stressed that the British Government should support the creation of an Administrative Region in the ChaldoAssyrian heartland in the Nineveh Plains. The escalating attacks perpetrated against the ChaldoAssyrians by …

“I still don’t know who they were,” says Mr. Isa, the vice president of Baghdad’s Al-Nahrain University. “But I took that message to be directed to Iraq’s educated people, its professors, business leaders, even the people working hard in our ministries. They want us to leave.” With stories like Isa’s …

Monday, Sep. 20, 2004When Keis Isitfan headed home from work one recent night, he had reason to watch his back. As a laundry worker for the U.S. embassy inside Baghdad’s green zone, he risked being attacked by insurgents targeting Iraqis who work for the U.S. But there was another source …