Assyrian news

 By Jacques Clement (AFP) – 2010-12-30 – 21h40   BAGHDAD — At least two Christians were killed and nine wounded in a string of six attacks on Christian homes in Baghdad on Thursday, an interior ministry official said. The worst incident was in the central district of Al-Ghadir, where a homemade …

Churches empty and Christmas decorations are put away after al-Qaida renews deadly threat (ADO-World.org) Martin Chulov in Baghdad Their cathedrals stand silent and their neighbourhoods are rapidly emptying. Now Iraq’s Christians face two further unthinkable realities: that Christmas this year is all but cancelled, and that few among them will …

(ADO-World.org) ANKAWA, 23 December 2010 – Hundreds of Iraqi Christians are fleeing to the northern semi-autonomous Kurdish region and particularly the town of Ankawa, which has become a safe haven for the country’s Christians, thanks to its special status and privileges granted by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Ankawa, near …

(ADO-World.org)   By JACK HEALY   Christian congregations across Iraq canceled or toned down Christmas celebrations in the wake of several attacks, including a bloody siege on a Catholic church in Baghdad in late October, and recent threats against the country’s dwindling Christian minority. Louis Sako, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop …

(ADO-World.org) Amnesty International today called on the Iraqi government to do more to protect the country’s Christian minority from an expected spike in violent attacks as they prepare to celebrate Christmas. “Attacks on Christians and their churches by armed groups have intensified in past weeks and have clearly included war …

(ADO-World.org) Chuck Colson On Monday [Dec. 13] the New York Times ran a lead paragraph to a story that’s as chilling as any I’ve read in recent memory. Here it is: "A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq and abroad amid a campaign of violence against …

(ADO-World.org) By Leonard Leo and Talal Eid As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ, their brothers and sisters in Iraq face the unthinkable: the possible obliteration of their community, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. Victimized by violence, displacement, discrimination, and marginalization, …

(ADO-World.org) One of the more unfortunate consequences of the U.S. invasion of Iraq has been the virtual decimation of the already small Christian community in Iraq. Christians were hardly immune from persecution under Saddam Hussein, but since they constituted less than 3 percent of the population and were not a …

(ADO-World.org)   By YAHYA BARZANJI and SAMEER N. YACOUB The Associated Press Wednesday, December 22, 2010 KIRKUK, Iraq — No decorations, no midnight Mass. Even an appearance by Santa Claus has been nixed after Iraq’s Christian leaders called off Christmas celebrations amid new al-Qaida threats on the tiny community still …

‘We are afraid for our sons and our children. There is no life in Baghdad’   By REBECCA SANTANA (ADO-World.org) IRBIL, Iraq — They saw their brethren murdered during Mass and then were bombed in their homes as they mourned. Al-Qaida vowed to hunt them down. Now the Christian community …