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The Media Department at the Assyrian Democratic Organization – Europe Branch has recorded a series of topics of interest for our people at the current time: The emergence of the Assyrian Democratic Organization. ADO – Mtakasta in the European Diaspora. ADO – Mtakasta and the Assyrian question in Iraq. ADO …

 by Jamal Hashim   BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — With the clock ticking to the new year of 2010, Iraqis seem more and more optimistic for welfare as normalcy is coming back at a snail’s pace despite sporadic waves of fatal car bombs.     Many Iraqis are enthusiastic to the idea …

Iraq – AsiaNews  –  2009-12-31 A deacon seriously hurt. A Christian killed before his house on Christmas Eve. The impotence of the government and avoidance of responsibilities. Nearly 2 thousand Christians killed in 6 years. Mosul – Attacks continue against Christians to push them to flee from Iraq. Yesterday afternoon …

By LARA JAKES and BUSHRA JUHI Associated Press Writers Tuesday, december 29, 2009 BAGHDAD — Christmas is bumping into Shiite Islam’s most mournful ceremony this year, forcing Iraqi Christians to keep their celebrations under tighter wraps than usual. Midnight Mass will again be celebrated in daylight across Baghdad, and security …

By John F. Cullinan   Tuesday, December 29, 2009.   Spare a thought — and perhaps also a prayer — for Iraq’s beleaguered Christians, who yesterday observed the somber Feast of the Holy Innocents. Perhaps nowhere else does this particular occasion cut closer to the bone: In Iraq, Christians mourn …

Published: Dec. 29, 2009   BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 29 (UPI) — Lebanese lawmakers blasted Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah for linking the "destiny" of the country to external factors.   Nasrallah in an address to commemorate the Shiite holy day of Ashura unleashed a litany of complaints against U.S. and Israeli …

Published: Dec. 28, 2009   BAGHDAD, Dec. 28 (UPI) — The Christian minority community in Iraq emerged from the Christmas holiday weekend largely unscathed amid a tense religious season. The major Christian religious holiday of Christmas coincided with a Shiite holiday that culminated Sunday with the Day of Ashura. Several …

Friday, 25 December 2009   By Rob Walker BBC News, Baghdad At the church of the Virgin Mary in Baghdad, hymns sung in the ancient Aramaic language float through intricately carved wooden doors into a small courtyard outside. They mix with religious songs blasted from the loudspeakers of a mosque …

Wednesday, December 16, 2009   In Mosul, a person was killed and 40 others wounded in two blasts which targeted two Syrian Catholic Churches at 11 a.m. A car bomb, struck the Syrian Orthodox Church of Purity in police neighborhood, killing a citizen and wounding 40 others. While the second …

Wednesday, 11 November 2009   Ethnic minorities living in northern Iraq face a human rights "catastrophe" as Arabs and Kurds vie for control, Human Rights Watch has warned. Yazidis, Shabaks and Christians faced attacks by Sunni Muslim extremists and harassment by Kurdish forces, it said. HRW called on Kurdish leaders …