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by Independent Press MADISON — The Presbyterian Church of Madison will host “Save the Flickering Light of Christianity in Iraq” on Sunday, March 22, when Juliana Taimoorazy, President of the Chicago-based Iraqi Christian Relief Council (ICR Council), will talk about the rampant religious cleansing afflicting Iraqi Christians in their war-torn …
Read More »Germany accepts 400 Iraqi refugees
by Charles Boyd Posted: Sunday, March 8, 2009, 15:42 (GMT) Germany has accepted four hundred Iraqi refugees into its borders as part of an EU scheme, which aims to take in 10,000 people who have been displaced due to the violence that has plagued the country since the US-led …
Read More »Iraqi Christians Returning To Mosul
March 05, 2009 BAGHDAD — Some 10,000 Christians who fled Iraq’s northern city of Mosul in the face of violent persecution last fall are beginning to return to the city, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq (RFI) reports.The pastor of a Mosul Chaldean church, Father Samir Elias, told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq …
Read More »Iraq Embassy in Beirut honors Alsumaria TV
Friday, March 06, 2009 Alsumaria held a dinner gathering in honor of the official Kurdish delegation and Kurdistani senior businessmen delegation visiting Lebanon to participate in the conference called for by the Kurdistani-Lebanese friendship association. The conference is aimed to increase job opportunities and investments in Iraq in general …
Read More »Ethan Bortnick, Child Prodigy to Help Raise Funds to Resettle Iraqi Christians
Farmington Hills, MI – March 6 2009 Ethan Bortnick will perform an hour concert at a fundraiser dinner March 21 at Shenandoah Country Club West Bloomfield Video Clip : Click to Watch A child prodigy pianist who is drawing raves across the country will be performing at Shenandoah Country Club …
Read More »Battle Over a Christian Monastery Tests Turkey’s Tolerance of Minorities
EUROPE NEWS – MARCH 7, 2009 Defending the Faith Battle Over a Christian Monastery Tests Turkey’s Tolerance of Minorities By ANDREW HIGGINS KARTMIN, TURKEY — Christians have lived in these parts since the dawn of their faith. But they have had a rough couple of millennia, preyed on by …
Read More »Hürriyet : Monastery case makes WSJ headlines
Hürriyet Daily News – 9 Mart 2009 ISTANBUL – A land dispute over an ancient monastery in the southeastern city of Mardin is a test for Turkey’s ability to accommodate groups at odds with “Turkishness,” the Wall Street Journal said in a front-page article yesterday.The boundaries around Mor Gabriel, one …
Read More »Mosul Receiving Returning Christians
MOSUL, Iraq – UPI — Christian leaders in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul report thousands of parishioners are returning to the area following a spate of targeted violence in 2008. Samir Elias with a Chaldean church in Mosul told the Iraqi bureau of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that …
Read More »Christians Fleeing Persecution in Iraq
By Kenneth R. Timmerman Beirut, Lebanon – newsmax — Christians continue to flee Iraq because of religious persecution, even as some Iraqi church leaders are calling on their compatriots to return home. The church leaders fear that Iraq will become emptied of Christians if the mass exodus continues, leading some …
Read More »Assyrian Monastery in Turkey Threatened
By Dikran Ego Berlin – acsatv — The harassment and intimidation against the Mar Gabriel Monastery continue and have taken a new impetus. Now the monastery staff is threatened openly in Turkey’s largest newspaper: “If the problem is not resolved, blood will be shed here” writes the newspaper Hürriyet.On Friday, …
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