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        North, Iraq – AINA — Thousands of Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) took to the streets in cities across northern Iraq’s Nineveh plain yesterday to protest what they see as a deliberate manoeuvre by the political majority to shut them out of Iraqi politics. The …

        Arbel, Iraq – Voices of Iraq — A Christian minister in Kurdistan’s regional government on Friday lashed out the provincial elections law lately endorsed by the parliament for marginalising his religious denomination. “The version of the law reached by the parliament’s legal committee along with regions and …

        Mosul, Iraq – AFP — Crowds of Iraqi Christians protested on Sunday against a newly approved provincial election law, saying the legislation failed to represent the interests of the minority community. Protestors shouted slogans against Baghdad’s Shiite-led government and against the law in the town of Al-Kosh …

        DAMASCUS – AFP — Counter-terrorist officers in Syria on Sunday hunted for those responsible for a car bomb attack that killed 17 people in Damascus, one of the deadliest attacks in the country in more than a decade. The bombing Saturday near a Shiite shrine in the …

By Raphael Thelen    Lebanon – Daily Star — Hundred of thousand of Chaldean Christians have fled Iraq because of violent threats against their community, and thousands of those refugees have arrived in Lebanon during the last few years, searching for a better life or resettlement in other countries. “The …

  By John Pontifex    Mosul, Iraq – catholicherald — Fresh-faced and cheerful, the young priest suddenly frowns: “I recently received a letter at the presbytery. Inside was a bullet. I knew at once what it meant,” he says: “I was a marked man.” At just 27 Fr Bassman Fatoohey …

By Jamie Glazov    Baghdad, Iraq – FrontPageMagazine — Frontpage Interview’s guest today is William J. Murray, the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition in Washington, DC. During the early 1980’s, he served as director of Freedom’s Friends, an organization which reached out to the victims of communism worldwide. In …

      Washington DC- CNA — The plight of Iraqi Christians in the chaotic wake of the war in Iraq has, in some places, become quite desperate. After meeting with two Chaldean bishops who explained the intensity of the situation, Deal Hudson decided to get the message out by honoring …

By Karim Talbi    TEL ASQUF, Iraq- AFP — With Kalashnikovs slung over their shoulders, members of Iraq’s first Christian militia enforce one simple rule on the border of this little village: “Anyone not from Tel Asquf is banned.” This village in northern Iraq’s flash-point Nineveh province, frequently targeted by …