Iraq

Iraq’s Christians suffer much from persecution and are fleeing the country. Yesterday Metro published articles on why equally many Iraqi refuges seek shelter in Södertälje, Sweden, as in the entire U.S. Iraq’s non –Muslim minorities, most of them Assyrians (Syriacs and Chaldeans) face systematic cleansing in the shadow of the …

In the recent political circumstances in Iraq and both the international and regional equations, the conference took place between March 10-12 where the delegates discussed numerous cases concerning the national and patriotic issues in Iraq. On the national level, Assyrians feel that they were marginalized and been purposely distinguished notwithstanding …

(AINA) — Save Assyria Front, a coalition of Assyrian groups, has called for the establishment of an Assyrian administered region in north Iraq. The coalition issued the following statement: In order to address the complicated circumstances in our region and the fabricated democracy in Iraq resulting in marginalization and exclusion …

Baghdad (AINA) — Muslims in the Dora neighborhood of Iraq are forcing Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) to pay the jizya, the poll tax demanded by the Koran which all Christians and Jews must pay in exchange for being allowed to live and practice their faith as well …

BAGHDAD (AP) — Two elderly sisters, both Chaldean Catholic nuns, were stabbed to death in their home in Kirkuk, city police reported Tuesday, saying the motive for the attack was not known. Kirkuk police 1st. Lt. Marewan Salih said Fawzeiyah Naoum, 85, and her 79-year-old sister Margaret, were stabbed multiple …

Baghdad (AINA) — Followers of Moqtada al-Sadr have issued a fatwa1 concerning school girls, according to an Assyrian priest in Baghdad. The fatwa requires all girls to wear the veil while attending school. In an unusual twist of logic, the fatwa implies that failure to wear the veil would be …

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a bipartisan, independent federal agency, has written to Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky to express concern about the dire situation of members of Iraqi religious minority groups that have fled their country, particularly ChaldoAssyrians and Sabean …

A Christian priest in Iraq was dismembered and beheaded by radical Islamists a few weeks ago as a reaction against Pope Benedict’s August comments about Islam. But Western church groups, more focused on denouncing the U.S. presence in Iraq than on criticizing radical Islam, have said virtually nothing about the …

(AINA) — The sectarian violence in Iraq has a nameless victim: the Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs). Possessing a unique cultural, religious and linguistic identity, being ethnically distinct from others, speaking Aramaic, professing Christ, looking to Nineveh in the north — the Assyrians are the only indigenous people …

(Zinda) — In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. …