Monthly Archives: April 2010

Turkey remains on religious freedom “Watch List”

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) announced its 2010 recommendations to Congress, the White House, and the State Department, which included keeping Turkey on its “Watch List” as one of the most serious offenders of freedom of religion towards non-Muslim communities.…

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Iraqis return home for Easter

Hopeful: Archbishop Emil Shimoun Nona says Easter Mass crowds in Mosul, Iraq, were a sign of hope for the survival of Christianity in the region MOSUL, Iraq (Zenit.org): The Archbishop of Mosul of the Chaldeans reported that a…

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Iraq’s forgotten conflict

Untold until now is the story of ‘a campaign of liquidation’ against Iraq’s religious minorities who, post invasion, have had to endure torture, killings, forced conversions and exile.…

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All those theres

Baghdad via exile, for Youssef Rakha, makes more sense than Baghdad Thanks to a flighty wi-fi connection at the riad where I stayed that time in Marrakesh, I heard Sargon Boulus reading his poems for the first time.…

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