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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 …

Following are highlights of the declaration, which was disclosed after a four-day meeting in the British capital. – Iraq will have a democratic, federal, parliamentary and pluralist system that does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex or ideology. A constitution will acknowledge the composition of the Iraqi …

American intelligence officials have been working alongside Kurdish officials in recent weeks, and recruiters for an American-sponsored opposition group have been selecting candidates for a program to train scouts and translators that one day may help American forces inside Iraq, according to Kurdish and Western officials. American military planners have …

During the 23 years of Saddam’s rule, Ibrahim’s fealty has served him and hundreds of thousands of other Iraqi Christians well. But as a U.S.-led war against Iraq looks increasingly likely, Ibrahim believes the Christians’ luck might finally be running out, along with their leader’s. “Until now this has been …

* * * The Assyrian Christians, a non-Arab, Semitic people with a 5,000-year presence in northern Iraq, constitute some 5% to 10% of the Iraqi population. Despite constant threats from Muslim neighbors, they have kept their ethnic and linguistic identity alive and maintain a flourishing diaspora in Australia, Europe and …

The majority of the members of this committee are Shiite moslems whose number in Iraq, particularly in southern Iraq, makes up 60 percent of the 22 million Iraqi population. The Assyrian Delegation was given a 3 percent representation of the total number of attendees to the Conference. Consequently, of the …

1-Ibrahim Hamoudi 2-Dr. Ahmed Chalabi 3-Ahmed Ali Muhsin 4-Akram Al Hakim 5-Albert Yelda 6-Ayad Al Samaraei 7-Dr. Ayad Allawi 8-Ayham Al Samaraei 9-Dr. Bayan Al Aaraji (Woman) 10-Bayan Jabr 11-Tawfiq Al Yasiri 12-Jalal Al Talabani 13-Jned Manko 14-Jawad Al Attar 15-Jawhar Namiq 16-Hatem Mukhlis 17-Hatem Shaalan Abu Al Joun 18-Hajim …