Monthly Archives: May 2010

“An Angel and a King”

Oh my king, last night I watched you as you slept in your courts of “Dur Sharrkin,” (the house of Sargon). I knelt before my Lord and your maker asking for your healing. I gently stroked your hair and softly kissed your cheek. I even shed a…

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Christian Persecution in Iraq

We have had technical problems with our Server. Please accept our apologies if you have received this Media Release previously. The Rev Fred Nile MLC, Leader of the Christian Democratic Party, gave the following address in the NSW Upper House on Christian persecution in Iraq.…

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STATE DEPARTMENT DEPUTY COMING TO DETROIT METRO AREA FOR MEETING WITH IRAQI REFUGEE COMMUNITY, RESETTLEMENT AGENCIES

The State Department has asked us to inform you that on Tuesday, June 1, 2010, Mr. Michael Corbin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, is scheduled to hold a public meeting with members of the Iraqi refugee community to address issues facing minority communities in Iraq, in countries of first asylum, and…

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Pope Appoints Bishop of Erbil, Iraq

(24 May 2010) On Monday Pope Benedict XVI appointed Father Bashar Warda bishop to the Chaldean Diocese of Erbil, in Northern Iraq. The new bishop replaces Mgr. Rabban Alqas who held the post of Apostolic Administrator of the same diocese since 2007.…

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To the Honourable Mayor of Yerevan Mr Gagik Beglaryan

ܣܝܥܬܐ ܐܬܩܪܝܬܐ ܬ ܒܝܠܝܬܐ ܕܣܝܦܐ لجنة متابعة مجازرإبادة الآشوريين (سيفو)العالمية Seyfo – Assyrian Genocide Assyrian International Seyfo Committee .AISC To the Honourable Mayor of Yerevan’  Mr Gagik Beglaryan…

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Ethic cleansing in Iraq affects Christians

Ethnic cleansing in Iraq has caused half of 1.4 million Christians who lived there to leave the country. Quoting the Assyrian International News Agency, the report said that these Assyrian Christians compose less than 4 percent of Iraq’s population.…

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‘Obliterating’ Iraq’s Christians

By Nina Shea director, Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom What is most startling about the report of the heartless double bus bombings on May 2 that targeted and injured 80 Christian students traveling to northern Iraq’s Mosul…

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Iraqi Christians Cling to Their Faith in Jordanian Exile

By Mona Alami AMMAN, May 14, 2010 (IPS) – As the 2003 United States-led invasion of Iraq began, the country’s Christians started streaming across the border into neighbouring Jordan. Today most of them continue to live here in abject poverty with no hope of ever returning to the land of their ancestors.…

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