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(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 …

(ADO-World.org) ANKARA – Turkey is pulling out all the stops to convince US lawmakers not to proceed with a possible vote on the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.252) in a House vote tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, reported the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan …

(ADO-World.org) GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 17 (UPI) — The U.N. refugee agency said it was outraged that some European countries were forcing Iraqi Christians to return home given the violence against the group. Iraqi Christians have been the target of frequent insurgent attacks since at least 2008 when violence in the …