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The Honorable Nuri al-Maliki Prime Minister Federal Republic of Iraq Baghdad, Iraq Dear Prime Minister al-Maliki, I am in great distress over the latest attacks perpetrated against our churches in Iraq. This contemptible action is clearly ethnocide and is intended to intimidate and dishearten the Assyrians and drive them out …

By Carol Rizk BEIRUT, Lebanon – Daily Star ++ Lebanon’s Catholic Media Center sounded the alarm on Tuesday saying Iraq’s Christians were facing increasing injustice and were being pushed to flea their home country. The center issued a statement "strongly" condemning acts of violence against Iraqi Christians, especially the latest …

     Washington – AINA ++ The bombing of the Virgin Fatima Church in Mosul, Iraq yesterday brings the total to seven churches bombed since this past Saturday evening. The attacks came even though Assyrian Christian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) sources warned of the impending attacks days ago. Assyrian …

     BEIRUT, Lebanon – CNS ++ Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni of Baghdad, Iraq, had just finished celebrating Mass at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church and was talking to parishioners in the courtyard. Moments later, while he was in his office, a bomb exploded on the road that …

     Baghdad – Reuters ++ A spate of bombs targeting churches in Baghdad this week has Iraq’s minority Christian community trembling at the prospect of being the next victim of militants trying to reignite war. Iraqi Christians, one of the country’s weakest ethnic or religious groups, have usually tried to …

Washington – AINA The bombing of the Virgin Fatima Church in Mosul, Iraq yesterday brings the total to seven churches bombed since this past Saturday evening. The attacks came even though Assyrian Christian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) sources warned of the impending attacks days ago. Assyrian sources received …

BEIRUT, Lebanon – CNS ++ Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni of Baghdad, Iraq, had just finished celebrating Mass at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church and was talking to parishioners in the courtyard. Moments later, while he was in his office, a bomb exploded on the road that runs …

Baghdad – Reuters ++ A spate of bombs targeting churches in Baghdad this week has Iraq’s minority Christian community trembling at the prospect of being the next victim of militants trying to reignite war. Iraqi Christians, one of the country’s weakest ethnic or religious groups, have usually tried to steer …

By David Clark Scott Baghdad – Christian Science Monitor ++ It takes a certain amount of courage to attend a church in Iraq. In the past 24 hours, bombs exploded outside of six churches in various Baghdad neighborhoods, killing at least four people, and wounding more than 30, according to …

By Christopher Torchia Baghdad – AP ++ A car bomb exploded near a church as worshippers left Sunday Mass, killing at least four civilians and injuring 18 in one of several attacks on Iraq’s beleaguered Christian minority. The coordinated assault came as the Iraqi military predicted that insurgent attacks, though …