Iraq

Background – Iraqi Christians In Iraq, live an estimated 1 million Christians who are ethnically Assyrian. This community descends from the various Mesopotamian kingdoms that once ruled the area and formed powerful empires in the Fertile Crescent. Their Christian heritage is ancient. Many Assyrians converted to Christianity as early as …

Criticism of an American proposal to replace the Baghdad government with a U.S.-led military government runs deep and wide. Many of the delegates assembling here also said they felt betrayed by U.S. President George W. Bush’s administration, which they perceive to be ignoring the Iraqi opposition. “We don’t think an …

By Teresa Watanabe, Times Staff Writer (LA-Times, 17.02.2003) They regard themselves as heirs to an ancient Mesopotamian tradition that produced early legends of creation, a great flood and a boy in a basket, set adrift in a river and rescued. But those traditions have virtually vanished from widespread public awareness, …

Scattered through Iraq, but primarily near the city of Nineveh, currently known as Mosul these remnants of the great Assyrian Empire and the only who still speak the language of Jesus – Aramaic – are frozen in time, once again the victims of circumstances beyond their control. It is their …

Am Wochenende trafen sich in Berlin etwa 50 Vertreterinnen und Vertreter bundesweiter Friedensorganisationen, um die bereits zuvor beschlossene Großdemonstratioin gegen den Irak-Krieg am 15. Februar vorzubereiten. Die Teilnehmer/innen waren sich darin einig, dass die Chancen auf eine breite Mobilisierung gegen den Krieg günstig sind. Die Stimmung im Land ist eindeutig …

The Kurds, an Iranian ethno-linguistic group – like Persians, Lurs, Baluch and Bakhtiari – inhabit the mostly mountainous area where the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria converge. Following World War I and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds were promised their own country under the terms …

It is easy to forget that, long after the exile, many Jews continued to live in Babylon and Mesopotamia and that present-day Iraq was once a biblical land. In the Acts of the Apostles, the witnesses of the first Pentecost included “Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia”, …

With the progress of events in the Middle East, namely Iraq, Assyrians find themselves on a crossroad. A crossroad that will have great impact on their future, in fact selecting the right road will be very decisive, because it will either mean the continuation of the Assyrian race, or its …

In other words, for every 27 Iraqis there is just one Christian. I wondered how these Christians felt. As a queer, I searched for a queer Christian. You may think it is easy to find one among the 850,000 Christians but it was hard. I found one and we became …

NCC General Secretary Bob Edgar arrived with the group Monday for meetings with heads of local churches, mosques, schools, hospitals, the Red Crescent Society and other agencies operating in Iraq. The itinerary did not include visits with government leaders, but the delegation met yesterday with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq …