Monthly Archives: October 2008

ICIN Aid in Iraq Over the last eighteen months ICIN has provided the following: 1. In response to the Dora Crisis, when over a thousand families were driven out of their homes and were left homeless, US$30,000 was granted through the Baghdad Bishop Committee (all denominations) mainly to provide shelter and food for displaced families…

BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraqi Christians have started to trickle home to the restive city of Mosul in recent days as attacks against them have tapered off, authorities said Friday. Jawdat Ismaeel, a local migration official in Mosul, said Christians are no longer fleeing the northern city since a spate of threats and killings earlier this…

Nation-wide rallies will be held in support of the Assyrian Christians, the indigenous people of Iraq, who in the past weeks have found themselves facing increasing violence intended to drive them from the city of Mosul, in Northern Iraq.…

Voisinage Written by Harry Hagopian … They were planning their war on Iraq for years before it started. September eleventh wasn’t the trigger; it was the pretext. The idea of destroying Iraq goes back to the moment when Saddam laid the very first stone for the foundation of his nuclear site. The Pentagon’s target was…

No doubt you have read recently about the new crisis: The persecution of the Iraqi Christians in Mosul (Iraq) For this reason the Iraqi community in Britain (of all denominations) have organised a march, authorised by the responsible authorities,…

MOSUL, Iraq, Oct. 29 (UPI) — Several members of the Christian community in northern Iraq are setting up ad hoc militias to secure their neighborhoods, rights advocates said Wednesday.…

Rabban Al-Qas October 27, 2008 The situation in Mosul (in northern Iraq) remains incendiary. In just a few weeks, there have been 14 deaths and more than 10,000 Christians have left. The authorities are shuffling the responsibility to each other, while the carnage…

 When Olivia Birwari ’12 first arrived to campus, she immediately noticed that Grinnell was a “very clean place, with many trees and green grass.” Most students take these features of a rural college campus for granted, but not Birwari, who has spent the last 20 years of her life living in Baghdad, Iraq.…

Iraqi Christians Form Militias for Protection By George Thomas CBN News Sr. Reporter CBNNews.com – BARTELLA, Iraq – Christians in Iraq are forming new armed militias to protect themselves against what they call a systematic campaign by Muslim extremists to drive them out of Iraq.…

Newsweek By Lennox Samuels In recent days, attacks against Christians in Mosul have forced thousands of the faithful to flee the northern Iraqi city, in an episode that has been condemned by everyone from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Coalition authorities to Pope Benedict…

By Jim Muir BBC News, Tellkeyf Advertisement Many Christians in Iraq say they are living in fear for their lives Camping with her two youngest children in a room at one of the churches in Tellkeyf, Ikhlas Matti bursts into tears when she tries to describe what has happened to her family.…

Christian women attend a religious service Sunday at a church in Baghdad. BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — More than half the Christian population has fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in reaction to a campaign of killings and intimidation, according to the United Nations.…

Appeal to the members of the DITIB PRESS RELEASE of the Society for Threatened Peoples Appeal to the members of the DITIB: For every Turkish DITIB mosque in Germany build one Christian church in Turkey!…

Iraqis in the UK, concerned over a wave of attacks on Christians in Mosul, will march to Downing Street on Saturday November 1. They plan to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, asking the Government to act immediately to prevent further killings, persecution and eviction of the Iraqi Christians in Mosul and other…

Timz   Timz,an American born rapper of Chaldean and Iraqi descent—continues to make heads turn across the world with his latest explosive, eye-opening music video “Do Something.” The newest effort from Timz serves as a wake up call to those who have grown numb to the reality of life, and replaced it with the ‘reality’…

Thousands of Christians and Muslim Kurds have been driven out of Mosul, Iraq, by threats, blackmail and Islamic propaganda, local Chaldean Bishop Rabban Al Qassays. Less than one quarter of the former Christian population has remained, the bishop told AsiaNews.…

Dear Friend, Today we launch a world-wide appeal to give financial and other help to the Armenians of Mosul and Baghdad who have had to flee for their lives.(this last week following the killing of 15 Christians in Mosul and previously) . This follows my visit to the Armenian community of Havrest and Zeikho on…

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI called on government and religious leaders to help end acts of “cruel violence” and intolerance many minority Christians are facing in some parts of the world, especially in Iraq and India…

by Rabban Al-Qas Urged by the appeal of Benedict XVI, Rabban Al Qas, bishop of Ammadiya and Erbil, asks prime minister al Maliki and the American forces to accept responsibility for the violence afflicting Christians, the result of an intolerant fundamentalism that has never been halted. A request to the Islamic world as well, that…

Cardinal Emmanuel-Karim Delly, patriarch of the Chaledean Catholic Church, has called upon the international community to come to the aid of Iraq’s persecuted Christians. Referring to ‘the whole international community,’ he said, ‘Up to now you have been silent and you have not spoken about us despite all of the sufferings we…