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         Sweden – ESNA — At 3:39 PM local time, the police in Gothenburg announced the arrestment of a 40 year old suspect after having cooperated with the federal police and the local police of Örebro, where Fuat Deniz was attacked with a knife at December 11th. More …

         Sweden – Thelocal — A man has been arrested in Gothenburg on suspicion of murdering university lecturer Fuat Deniz, who was stabbed on campus at Örebro University in central Sweden last month (AINA, 12-13-2007). The man arrested is in his forties, police say. A warrant had earlier …

         Sweden – TT/The Local — State forensic experts have helped bring police in Orebro a step closer to identifying a man suspected of murdering university lecturer Fuat Deniz. -Political motive suspected in Orebro murder (16 Dec 07) -University murderer remains at large (14 Dec 07) -Stabbed lecturer …

         Kirkuk(Irak) – AsiaNews — “We are concerned by yesterday’s attacks but we continue to have hope and we will continue in our commitment to inter-religious dialogue”.Msgr. Louis Sako, Archbishop of Kirkuk declared to AsiaNews in the aftermath of yesterday’s two car bomb attacks (not three as it …

         ANKARA – Reuters — Turkish police have foiled a plot to murder a priest, in a case that recalls other attacks this year against Christians in Muslim but secular Turkey, newspapers reported on Monday.Police in the coastal resort of Antalya detained a young man on Sunday on …

         ANKARA – The Brussels Journal — The well-known Turkish nationwide television station ‘Show TV’ aired on 8th, 15th and 29 November 2007 a new episode of the old series “Kurtlar Vadisi-Pusu” – The Valley of the Wolves. (…) The film is about the relationship between the state …

         Funeral of Fuat Deniz 09.Jan.2008 Fuat Deniz, who was murdered at his workplace at Örebro University on December 10th, 2007, will be buried on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 in Örebro. The funeral will take place at 12 AM in the St. Olai church in the center of …

         The Hague – AINA– In response to yesterday’s coordinated church and monastery bombings in Iraq (AINA 1, 2), five members of the Dutch Parliament addressed questions to the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maxime Verhagen (CDA). The questions were submitted by Peter Omtzigt (Christian Democratic Party, CDA), …

  By Nuri Kino   BAGHDAD – AINA — At five o’ clock today, a few hours after the bombs had detonated; one of the churches in central Baghdad held an Epiphany mass. “We have decided to continue to go to church, let them bomb us, we’ve had enough. It’s …

     BAGHDAD – AsiaNews — The targets were three Christian Churches and three convents belonging to religious orders. No deaths have been reported so far but serious damage has been done. Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk: the attacks could be part of a coordinated plan aimed at sending a clear …