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        Baghdad – AsiaNews — The Iraqi government has expressed its solidarity to the Christians of Baghdad and has pledged to protect them. In a statement in English reported yesterday by the AINA news agency, a spokesman for the Iraqi government said that the “Iraqi Cabinet addressed the issue …

        Paris- AFP — France said Thursday the international community is determined to set up an international tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, on his first trip since assuming office less than a week ago, told …

  By Scott Lindlaw U.S – AP — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday blamed the apparent collapse of a truce in Lebanon on extremists trying to “sow discord” as she renewed the Bush administration’s strong support of the Lebanese government. “I certainly hope that the Lebanese government will …

  By Kenneth R. Timmerman WASHINGTON- newsmax — A group of armed Muslims set fire to St. George’s Assyrian Church in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad last week, completing decimating what remained of a church already hit by a deadly fire-bombing in October 2004. “The bombing of St. George’s Church …

        BEIRUT- UPI — Syria sent Fatah al-Islam elements to Lebanon to cause havoc — at least that’s what a Lebanese Christian leader is claiming. Samir Geagea, an anti-Syrian politician who heads the Christian Lebanese Forces, accused Damascus of sending the Islamic militant group’s leader, Shaker al-Abssi, to Lebanon …

  By Joseph Keenan *Egypt — Christians in Egypt have voiced their anger at the Egyptian government for “failing to adequately punish a single Muslim perpetrator” as a human rights research centre shows that over 4000 Copts (Christians of Egypt) were killed or injured during the past three and a …

By Rosie Malek-Yonan Woodbury University – AINA — I want to look up at the Heavens and see the moon over Assyria.Often, I have wondered what it would be like to be able to say, I come from Assyria.To hold an Assyrian passport.To know that there will always be a …

        Egypt- Christian Newswire — For the past three and half decades, the Copts (Christians of Egypt) have been targeted by a wave of brutal attacks on their persons, churches, homes and businesses. Ibn Khaldoun Research Center (headed by Human Rights advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim) documented over one hundred …

        AMMAN- AINA– In April 2007, Mr. Nuri Kino, the award winning investigative reporter and film maker from Sweden, spent six grueling days in Amman, Jordan recording and witnessing the dreadful plight of the Iraqi Christian refugees. By God: Six Days in Amman (PDF) is a grim and sobering …

By Haore Sulaiman AMMAN- AINA– She chooses her words very carefully when she tells about what she has seen and heard during her trip in Iraq. One single word that is misunderstood can have devastating consequences for Christian groups, Margareta Viklund, president of the Swedish Committee for Assyrians (SKA) and …