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(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 …

The UN Commission for Refugees sharply criticizes the Swedish government for the forced repatriation of five Christians who fled Baghdad for fear of attacks. "Many of the newcomers explain they left Iraq for fear of an attack, after what happened on October 31," says a UN spokesman. (ADO-World.org – Baghdad) …

‘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 …

(ADO-World.org) Written by Ken Blackwell The New York Times this week ran a front-page article on Christian persecution in Iraq, noting, “A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq or abroad amid a campaign of violence against them and growing fear that the country’s security forces are …

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE AI Index: PRE 01/422/2010 20 December 2010 Iraqi Christians fear spike in Christmas attacks (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 …

(ADO-World.org) By Steven Lee Myers 19 December 2010 CHRISTIAN Iraqis are again fleeing to other parts of the country and abroad amid growing fears that the security forces are unable or, more ominously, unwilling to protect them from sectarian attack. The flight – involving thousands of Christians from Baghdad and …

(ADO-World.org) By Katherine T. Phan The U.N. Refugee agency reported that thousands of Iraqi Christians are fleeing central Iraq and seeking refuge in the northern region of the country. About 1,000 families have fled Baghdad and Mosul to the Kurdish-controlled region and Ninewa plains in the north, according to The …

(ADO-World.org) Amir Taheri December 19, 2010 For the last 10 days, Christians throughout Iraq have been holding meetings to decide whether to stay and risk being killed or flee into exile and an uncertain future. Most Iraqi Christians have Assyrian, Chaldaean and Babylonian backgrounds, peoples who have lived in "the …