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        Baghdad – AKI — An armed Iraqi group has in recent days begun targeting Christians in the residential al-Doura neighbourhood of Baghdad, according to an interior ministry source quoted by the pan Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat. Information obtained during probes and the interrogation of various terror suspects arrested …

        Baghdad – AsiaNews — Religious leaders have taken up the Chaldean Patriarch’s appeal to save persecuted Christians in Iraq, asking for protection from the authorities and respect for human rights. However, while condemning the untenable situation, they have not lost hope that the “flames in which all Iraqis …

        Brussels – ADO — The Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament met with Mr. Massoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, on Tuesday, 8 May, 2007, where views and opinions were exchanged regarding the Kurdish Region. Mr. Ablahad Astepho, representative of the Assyrian Democratic …

  By Ravi Nessman Baghdad – AP — Despite the chaos and sectarian violence raging across Baghdad, Farouq Mansour felt relatively safe as a Christian living in a multiethnic neighborhood in the capital. Then, two months ago, al-Qaida gunmen kidnapped him and demanded that his family convert to Islam or …

  By Paul Isaac * Washington – AINA — A militant Islamic group in Iraq recently issued a fatwa, or religious edict, to the Assyrian Christian residents of the Baghdad suburb of Dora: Convert to Islam within 24 hours, or face death. At the same time, Muslim neighbors were instructed, …

  By Liz Sly * BAGHDAD – AINA — Christians are fleeing in droves from the southern Baghdad district of Dora after Sunni insurgents told them they would be killed unless they converted to Islam or left, according to Christian leaders and families who fled. Similar episodes of what has …

By Jacklin Bejan Bagdad- AINA– Amidst the war torn Iraq, in a place where it may be easier to die than to live, overshadowed and virtually ignored, the world is witnessing with horror, yet in utter silence, the systematic religious and ethnic persecution and cleansing of the indigenous Christian Assyrian, …

  By Ravi Nessman Baghdad – AP — Despite the chaos and sectarian violence raging across Baghdad, Farouq Mansour felt relatively safe as a Christian living in a multiethnic neighborhood in the capital. Then, two months ago, al-Qaida gunmen kidnapped him and demanded that his family convert to Islam or …

Elif Görgü“Geçenlerde bir hafta yaðan yaðmur sonunda ortaya çýkan bir sürü kemik, tepeden aþaðýya doðru aktý” diyordu Diyarbakýr’da biri. Mardin’de bir diðeri; “Bizim mahalle Ermeni mahallesi. Sorsan, herkesin ailesinde Ermeni kadýnlar vardýr. “Geçenlerde bir hafta yaðan yaðmur sonunda ortaya çýkan bir sürü kemik, tepeden aþaðýya doðru aktý” diyordu Diyarbakýr’da biri. …

 Kirkuk – AsiaNews — “Let us unite ourselves to put an end to this violence to this folly of human reason”: this is the invitation extended by a group of Chaldean bishops to the entire world, and above all to “our Muslim brothers”, and the representatives of the international community …