
The governor of Nineveh province Athel Al Nujaifi today announced that after major discussion in parliament this week, the Iraqi government has given permission to all Christians in the Nineveh province (Dashtet Nineveh) to carry weapons, as part of an emergency measure to help secure the Christian community.
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Even though Assyrians are the indigenous people of today's Iraq, having been there long before the creation of Iraq and the birth of Christianity, they are treated as outsiders and are being forced to leave their homeland. This peaceful nation has been turned into a "hostage nation" with no one negotiating a release.
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More than one thousand people took on Sydney’s CBD in coordinated protests yesterday afternoon against the attacks on Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac Christians in Iraq.
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(New York) -- Amnesty International today condemned Sunday's "shameless" attack on civilian hostages in a Catholic church in Baghdad, calling it "nothing less than a war crime."
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BREAKING NEWS – AL-QAEDA WARNS ASSYRIAN CHRISTIANS OF ‘RIVERS OF BLOOD’
BREAKING NEWS – FEARS OF MASS EXODUS OF ASSYRIAN CHRISTIANS FROM BAGHDAD
Iraq authorities investigating Sundays ‘Baghdad Church Massacre’ today released information on the Al-Qaeda militants. Three of the attackers are believed to have been carrying Egyptian passports while another three carried Yemeni documents.
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Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq is threatening more attacks on Christians after a bloody siege on a Baghdad church earlier this week.
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One of the priests murdered in Sunday’s siege of a Baghdad church pleaded with militants to kill him but let all 150 parishioners free. The priest was then told to convert to Islam because he would have been killed either way. With the priest refusing he was then brutally shot dead.
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- BREAKING NEWS - EGYPT, SYRIA, LEBANON, BAHRAIN, JORDAN CONDEMN ATTACKS, HIZBALLAH LEADER CALLS MILITIANTS 'EVIL AND UNISLAMIC'
- Tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians and muslims protest across the country
- Iraqi government arrests Police commandos over the church massacres
- Many children reported to have been killed in seige
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AMMAN — Jordan on Monday condemned the hostage-taking in a Baghdad cathedral that resulted in the deaths of 46 members of Iraq’s dwindling Christian community as a “terrorist act” against civilians.
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-BREAKING NEWS - One of the largest Assyrian death tolls from a single attack since simele massacres in 1933
-BREAKING NEWS - Death toll rises to 60 after deadly church seige
-BREAKING NEWS - Third Assyrian priest dies in Hospital from wounds to his kidney. This now places the death toll of the priests at three
- Germany calls on protection for Iraqi Assyrians
- French government condemns Iraqi church attacks
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