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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

     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 …

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 …

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, …

     Turkey – todayszaman — The UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger lists languages whose survival is unsafe, definitely endangered, severely endangered, critically endangered — or already extinct. A total of 18 languages from Turkey made the list: three already extinct, four unsafe, seven definitely endangered, three severely …

     ANKARA – Hurriyet — One of the world’s oldest Christian monasteries, located near Turkey’s border with Syria, will be visited next week by a group of German lawmakers seeking to monitor progress in an ongoing land dispute. The visit demonstrates the German interest to make sure religious freedoms and …