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Entries for April 2007

Susan Jajou Celebrates a Culture of Life Victory But Says The Momentum Must Continue

By Ann Bahri :: 109731 Views ::

Washington DC, USA – Chaldeans overwhelming applaud America’s Supreme Court's majority who has upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 that president Bush singed into law. Chaldean activists continue to fight hard alongside others throughout the world to stop the killing of babies. “Over 95% of abortions are performed out of social convenience. It is sad that the ignorant among us are being manipulated into killing their babies. We are the abolitionists of our time. We must protect the weak and innocent and stop those who believe these babies are not human,” says UCLA’s Right to Life student leader Susan Jajou.

By Guest Reporter :: 56464 Views ::

:: Law & Order, Government & Society

Baghdad, IRAQ – “Get rid of the cross or we will burn your Churches.” This is the threat aimed at the Chaldean Church of Sts Peter and Paul, located in the ancient Christian quarter of Baghdad, Dora. Local sources say an unknown armed Islamic group is behind the threats which are inseminating terror in the capital. The website www.Ankawa.com and AINA news agency along with Asia News have reported a ravage and inhuman campaign of against Christians in the area. Even Mosul, a Sunni stronghold, the Christian presence is become grave.

The Islamic group active in Dora seems to have delivered an ultimatum to the Christian community there: convert to Islam or die!

By Rita Abro :: 76250 Views ::

:: Law & Order, Government & Society, World News & Odds 'N' Ends

Baghdad, IRAQ - Minority Rights Group International (MRG) releases their State of the World’s Minority’s 2007 report was released last week. The report highlights minority groups in Iraq, including Christians and women, as among the most vulnerable in the world.

Iraq is home to a shrinking indigenous population of Christian groups with Chaldeans composing only three percent of the 26 million people in the country.

The minority report cited the September-October UNAMI (United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq) report that noted a spike in violence against all Christians in Iraq, including churches and convents being attacked by rocket and gunfire and religious leaders being kidnapped and beheaded in October.

By Sam Yousif :: 65 Views ::

:: Law & Order, Government & Society

Michigan, USA - Police in Warren are searching for the vandals who sprayed messages of hate on St. Mary's Assyrian Church. The attack on the small Iraqi-Christian community comes just one month before the church is scheduled to open.

By Sam Yousif :: 34 Views ::

:: Law & Order, World News & Odds 'N' Ends

Baghdad, IRAQ — Frustrated Islamic radical insurgents are beginning to change strategies as attacks on Christians, women, and children increase. During the most holy week for Christians around the world, those in Iraq are praying to stay alive as Islamic terrorists ramp up their campaign of death and carnage. Two elderly sisters beaten to death, a 14-year-old boy, nailed to a cross, another child toddler beheaded because parents were unable to raise ransom money, and now a suicide truck bomber with his payload hidden in flour kills 15 including a newborn girl and wounds nearly 200 people in Kirkuk.

By Ziad Bitti :: 25 Views ::

:: Law & Order, World News & Odds 'N' Ends

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - There was growing concern about spreading anti-Christian violence in Iraq after church officials confirmed two elderly women of the Catholic Chaldean community were beaten to death.

Fadila Naoum, 85, and her 79-year-old bed-ridden sister Margaret were killed Monday, March 26, 2007 in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, said Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk.

By Guest Reporter :: 14 Views ::

:: Law & Order, Government & Society, World News & Odds 'N' Ends

Beirut, LEBANON - Its procession of frond-waving believers, the singing and chanting, and the proud parents snapping photos of their princess-garbed daughters made the Palm Sunday celebration in the Beirut suburb of al-Fanar look like any of the hundreds occurring all over Lebanon. But after the service, the conversations among parishioners revealed the special nature of this community. Many of them spoke Arabic with heavy Iraqi accents — al-Fanar has become a magnet for Christian refugees from Iraq.

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