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1000 march for Iraqi Christians

Rowena Orejana — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:00:04 +0000

by ROWENA OREJANA
AUCKLAND — More than 1000 Iraqi Christians and their supporters marched from St Patrick’s Cathedral through Queen St to Aotea Square in Auckland to on August 30 to press for help for
persecuted Christians and other minority groups in Iraq.echo $variable;

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Take action for Christians in Iraq

Michael Otto — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:56:10 +0000

NZ CATHOLIC Editorial Prayers are being said around the world for Christians in Iraq, who are being persecuted by ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), but there is only limited hands-on help. On July 18, the largest Christian community in Iraq, the Chaldean Catholics of Mosul, were given an ultimatum: Leave your ancestral

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Pope asks for international action to help Iraq’s persecuted Christians

Vatican City (CNS) — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 02:14:26 +0000

By Cindy Wooden

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis asked Catholics around the world to pray for tens of thousands of Christians from villages in northeastern Iraq who were forced from their homes in the middle of the night by Islamic State militants.echo $variable;

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Chaldean Church buildings targeted in bombings in Mosul, Iraq

Michael Otto — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000

LONDON (CNS) A Chaldean Catholic church, rectory and convent in the northern Iraq city of Mosul were bombed in two separate incidents in late November, but no one was injured. Explosives were detonated inside St. Ephrem’s Church Nov. 26, and the building was reduced to a "blackened shell," said a Nov. 27 statement by the

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Pope calls death of Iraqi archbishop ‘act of inhuman violence’

Vatican City (CNS) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:00:00 +0000

VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope Benedict XVI called the kidnapping and death of an Iraqi archbishop "an act of inhuman violence that offends the dignity of the human being and seriously harms the . . . coexistence among the beloved Iraqi people". echo $variable;

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Kidnappers take Iraqi archbishop, kill his three companions

Michael Otto — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:00:00 +0000

ROME (CNS) Kidnappers abducted Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq, and killed the three people who were traveling with him. Chaldean Bishop Rabban al Qas of Arbil told the Rome-based missionary news service AsiaNews that Mosul’s archbishop was kidnapped late Feb. 29 after he finished leading the Way of the Cross. Archbishop

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