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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/mosul-christians/" rel="tag">Mosul Christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86/" rel="tag">بالمسيحيين</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right"><a title="20081013_Christian_boy_fleeing_Mosul_with_family_at_Qaraqosh_checkpoint by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/2940799941/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px" height="207" alt="20081013_Christian_boy_fleeing_Mosul_with_family_at_Qaraqosh_checkpoint" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/2940799941_3de84fc37e_o.jpg" width="300" align="left"/></a>قال رئيس أساقفة الموصل للكلدان المطران إميل شمعون نونا إن "عدد السكان الكلدان الكاثوليك قد انخفض إلى النصف تقريبا (من عشرين إلى عشرة آلاف)، بعد تكرار أعمال العنف التي استهدفتهم في الموصل". <br/>واوضح المطران نونا في مقابلة أجرتها معه خدمة الإعلام الديني التابعة لمجلس الأساقفة الايطاليين اليوم الجمعة أن العديد من الأسر عادت إلى مدينة الموصل الآن"، ومع هذا "فهناك من فضل منهم عدم العودة إطلاقا، والهجرة إلى الخارج مباشرة"،وبشكل خاص "أولئك الذين تتيح لهم ذلك إمكانياتهم المادية أو الثقافية كالأساتذة والأطباء والمهنيين"، بينما "تبقى الأسر الأكثر فقرا والتي تحتاج إلى أقصى المساعدة والدعم". <br/>واشار الى ان هذا الأمر "يضعنا أمام صعوبات من الناحية الراعوية أيضا، نظرا للتقلص المستمر لحجم جماعتنا، والذي يخلق لدينا شعورا بالإحباط أحيانا" وفق تعبيره . <br/>واضاف رئيس أساقفة الكلدان أن "في مدينة الموصل اليوم ما يقرب من ألف عائلة مسيحية، تشتمل على أقل من خمسة آلاف مؤمن"، أما "عائلات الأبرشية بأكملها، فهي تصل إلى نحو 3500 مع 10 آلاف مسيحي"، وقد "كنا أكثر من ضعف هذا في الماضي". <br/>ولفت إلى أنها "جماعة عليها أن تواجه كل يوم ذلك العدو الخفي، أي الخوف"، منوها بأن "الشعور السائد لدينا دائما أننا مستهدفون من قبل شخص ما، دون أن نعلم من هو ولماذا يريد إلحاق الأذى بنا"، وختم بالقول إن "الخوف من أن نصاب في أي وقت لا يزال كبيرا"،على حد قوله.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8832"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/25/mosuls-christians-are-being-hunted-murdered-and-forced-to-flee/#comments" title="Comment on Mosul’s Christians Are Being Hunted, Murdered, And Forced To Flee (With Updates)">3 Comments</a></span> Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Mohammed Ibn Laith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/25/mosuls-christians-are-being-hunted-murdered-and-forced-to-flee/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Mosul’s Christians Are Being Hunted, Murdered, And Forced To Flee (With Updates)">Mosul’s Christians Are Being Hunted, Murdered, And Forced To Flee (With Updates)</a></h3> <p 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=127613" target="_blank" class="external">more than thirty</a>" Christian families had fled Mosul within a space of two days. "More than thirty" —  you could be forgiven for having the the impression that only a few more than thirty families have fled, thirty one, thirty two, thirty three perhaps … … …  "more than thirty".</p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 300px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p><strong>Updates:</strong></p> <p>While I was writing this during the day my colleagues were working on the postings and summaries for tonight. Here is some of what is in their preliminary drafts (I have translated from Arabic):</p> <h3>Several attacks on minority members in Mosul:</h3> <ul> <li>Two shabaki were murdered by gunmen who forced their way into their workshop in East Mosul and shot them dead. </li> <li>The body of a woman who had had been killed by having her head cut off was found in al-Mashierfa (west Mosul). </li> <li>An old lady was stabbed to death in her home in al-Zuhoor (east Mosul) by men who forced their way into her house. </li> <li>Three Christians were captured and shot dead by a gang of gunmen on the plains of Ninewa. </li> <li>A man was shot dead in South Mosul in a drive by shooting. </li> <li>Also on the plains of Ninewa the body a man who is believed to be a Yazhidi was found he had been very recently shot. </li> </ul></div> <p>The reality is catastrophically worse. <em>Hundreds</em> of Christian families have fled their homes in the last two days in Mosul and it’s suburbs in terror for their lives.</p> <p>If you are a Christian in Mosul today the overwhelming factor in your life is that to fear being hunted down and slaughtered without mercy is an entirely reasonable fear to have. The source of the "more than thirty" quote is Bashar Kiki who is the head of the village council for <a title="postings about Tal Kayf/Tal Keef" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/tal-keef/" target="_blank">Tal Keef</a>. However, if you read the report that my colleague Mohammed Al-Hamadani <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/25/%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%AD-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B5%D9%84-%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84/" target="_blank">posted earlier today</a> (<em>Arabic language</em>) it becomes very clear that Bashar Kiki<sup><strong>1</strong></sup> was speaking only of families whom he <em>personally</em> had met and to whom he <em>personally</em> offered help.</p> <p>However when you count <em>all</em> the Christian families who have fled their homes in Mosul in the last few days and not just those who fled to Tal Keef as we have done and as Bishop Emil Shimoun Nona, Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, has done then the scale of the catastrophe engulfing Mosul’s Christians becomes clear.</p> <p>Speaking from Mosul the Bishop spoke of a "humanitarian emergency" and revealed that in just one day, yesterday, "hundreds of Christian families" had fled the city taking what they could carry leaving their homes and livelihoods behind them. Those families are now destitute.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bishop-of-Mosul:-humanitarian-emergency.-Hundreds-of-Christian-families-fleeing-violence-17726.html" class="external" target="_blank">IRAQ Bishop of Mosul: humanitarian emergency. Hundreds of Christian families fleeing violence – Asia News</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>The archbishop of Mosul is concerned about the many families, "hundreds" in one day yesterday, leaving the city. Bishop Nona speaks of an " unending via Crucis” and denounces the "change in methods" operated by the armed gangs. "In the past we said to the Christians to remain closed in the house – he remembers – but now they are even attacked in their own homes”. The reference is to the murder took place last February 23: commandos entered the house of Aishwa Marosi, a Christian of 59, killing the man and two boys. His wife and daughter witnessed the murder but were spared by the criminals.</p> <p>Bishop Nona confirms the risk that "Mosul will be emptied completely of Christians”, who are fleeing towards the plain of Nineveh and other places considered safer. "Yesterday I visited some families – he continues – I have tried to bring comfort, but the situation is dramatic. The people fled without taking anything with them”. This is why the local archdiocese has launched an initial emergency response, trying to provide "essential supplies and relief", but the danger of "a humanitarian crisis is real."</p> <p>The archbishop of Mosul plans to travel to Baghdad to meet with politicians and the central government, to demand their intervention. It is difficult to maintain the Christian presence, he continues, and it is likely that the general elections – scheduled for March 7 – no one will vote. The confining of Iraq’s Christians in the Nineveh Plain, victims of a power struggle between Arabs and Kurds, seems an increasingly concrete likelihood, although the Church leaders have always been opposed to this "ghettoisation". So far, the warring factions have used the excuse of religion and armed gangs to drag the Christians into the conflict. "For this – concluded Mgr. Nona – we now need to find a ‘political response’ to the conflicts, the struggle for power.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Among those hundreds of Christian families who fled their homes yesterday were the families of two Gorilla’s Guides team members. More Christians have fled Mosul this morning. Among those who fled this morning were a further two families of Gorilla’s Guides Christian team members in Mosul. </p> <p>When I wrote "<em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2008/03/23/nearly-one-million-christians-most-of-them-now-on-the-run/" target="_blank">Nearly One Million Christians – Most Of Them Now On The Run</a></em>" nearly two years ago, we had <strong>twenty five</strong> Christian team members and associates together with their families living in Mosul and it’s suburbs. Today February 25th 2010 we have <strong>one</strong> Christian team member left living in the city. He lives alone having sent his family to stay in the home of another team member far from Mosul for their safety.</p> <p>The savage murder of the 59 year old Assyrian Christian Aishwa Maroki by a gang of gunmen who smashed down his front door to get at him and then <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/23/gunmen-kill-3-christians-in-mosul-aswat-al-iraq/">slaughtered him and and his two sons Bassim and Mokhlas in front of his terrified wife and daughter</a> has terrorised many of Mosul’s Christians beyond endurance. As my colleague has reported in the immediately preceding posting (see <span dir="rtl" align="right"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/25/%d9%86%d8%b2%d9%88%d8%ad-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%b1-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%85%d9%86-%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%88%d8%b5%d9%84-%d8%ac%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84/">نزوح اسر مسيحية من مدينة الموصل جراء العنف | Gorilla’s Guides</a></span> ) The leader of Tal Keef district council, Bashar Kiki, has said that he personally has offered assistance to thirty Christian refugee families and that he expects more Christian refugees to arrive in the next few days.</p> <p>Mosul’s Christians are the victims of the complete breakdowns in law and order that have taken place repeatedly in Mosul since the American invasion of Irak. They are the victims of several concentrated campaigns of terror against them. There is the campaign by Takfiri extremists and there are the competing campaigns of Arab and Kurdish nationalists. Wherever my Christian brothers and sisters in humanity look in the city that is their home Mosul’s Christians see only threats and predators. The security forces, the Peshmerga now flooding the city, and the American forces who patrol with the Peshmerga do nothing to protect the Christians. Nor do they do anything to protect the other minorities such as the Shabaki and the Yazhidi.</p> <p>We have many eyewitness reports from witnesses whom we know to be credible of Peshmerga and their American allies standing by and doing nothing while Christians are attacked in front of their eyes. We have reports from people whose testimony we know to be credible of Christians being "fingered" by the new "security" forces flooding Mosul and then being attacked. We are not the only people with thick dossiers of such reports. Every human rights organisation with a presence in the governorate has such a dossier.</p> <p>The parallels with the death squad murder campaigns of recent years in which the death squads consisting of  "men dressed in police uniform" and "men dressed in army uniform" turned out to <em>be</em> police and soldiers are too clear and too appalling to be missed. As with those campaigns the aim is explicitly political — to remove a political obstacle by forcing an entire community to flee in terror from their homes</p> <p>When Mosul’s Christians say that they are surrounded by threats and predators in the city that is their home and that among worst predators are those whose duty it is to protect them they are telling the truth.</p> <p>Like Bashar Kikim, and Bishops Sako and Nona  we in Gorilla’s Guides know that we can expect more Christians to flee in terror as the terror campaigns against them escalate. We expect increased violence against them and the other minority groups, such as Turkmen, Fayli, Shabaki, and Yazhidi in the run up to the election. We expect the violence levels to escalate against them still further as the issues of Kirkuk and the so-called "disputed areas" come once more to forefront of the political arena. This is the second time in recent years that I have <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2008/02/03/25-muharram-1429-03-february-2008-mike-and-mohammed/comment-page-1/#comment-8683" target="_blank">burnt with rage and shame that we cannot do more to protect our Christian brothers and sisters</a>. I believe that it is now very doubtful that there will be any surviving Christians in Irak in a few years time.</p> <p>Mohammed Ibn Laith</p> <p><strong>Notes and references:</strong>  </p> <ol> <li>I have met and dealt with Bashar Kiki on occasion as have many other team members and we know him to be a truthful, honourable, upright, and compassionate man. </li> <li>For a background briefing on Iraki Christians see: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2008/03/23/nearly-one-million-christians-most-of-them-now-on-the-run/">Nearly One Million Christians – Most Of Them Now On The Run | Gorilla’s Guides</a> I wrote it on March 23, 2008 in it I deal with Iraki Christian history and discuss the legal (Shariah) situation as regards their rights to live and worship in peace and freedom. </li> <li>However the Takfiri campaign against Iraki Christians in general and Mosuli Christians in particular is only one of several campaigns against them. Most of the attacks on them are ethnic cleansing from one group or another. <strong>Some of the best coverage is from the Vatican run Asia News who are unafraid of using their excellent local contacts and contacts with local organisations to get at the truth. <br/></strong> <ul> <li>The homepage for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.asianews.it/en.html" target="_blank" class="external">Asia News’ English language service is at this link</a>. </li> </ul> <p>This report explains clearly the basic problem  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Mosul:-targeted-execution-of-Christians-continues-in-media-and-government-silence-17384.html" class="external" target="_blank">IRAQ Mosul: targeted execution of Christians continues in media and government silence – Asia News</a> the last part of which I extract immediately below:</p> <blockquote><p>Local witnesses reported that "the murder took place in front of the security forces, who saw all the phases of the attack, but did not intervene." A Catholic in Mosul says that "the tactic is to murder Christians, because the media does not talk about it." A strategy that aims to push Christians towards the plain of Nineveh, "in the silence and indifference of the government and the international community." </p> <p>A source for AsiaNews in Mosul, adds that "Christians are living in panic and have begun fleeing from the city". He explains that "these are not normal criminals," but behind them are "specific political plans" that the government is not countering. There is no information from Baghdad "about who is behind attacks on churches and Christians," but the source is confident that the central executive, the governorship of Mosul and the Kurdish leadership "are aware" of the plan against the Christian community. </p> <p>"It is easier to attribute responsibility to Al Qaeda – concludes the source – and the fundamentalist fringe. In reality, Christians are victims of a power struggle between Arabs and Kurds".</p> </blockquote> </li> <li>My colleague <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/author/ali/" target="_blank">Ali</a> who has excellent contacts in Mosul and trained our coordinator there made a simlar point om May 13, 2009: <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/05/13/suffer-the-little-children-2/">Suffer The Little Children | Gorilla’s Guides</a>:<br/> <blockquote> <p>There’s a reason why our Christian fellow citizens are fleeing Irak and not coming back. The tragedy of Tony Edward Shiol’s murder illustrates it perfectly — Christians are targets. Sometimes they are targeted as a matter of ethnic cleansing, sometimes because of warped and fanatical religiosity, and sometimes because they are often seen as being a relatively wealthy and relatively powerless minority. </p> <p>Irak’s Christians have been through hell, Irak’s Christians continue to endure hell – the figures speak for themselves. As best I can determine the Christian population stood at 1.2 million in 1991, 800,000 in 2003 and is less than 400,000 today. When I talk to the few of my Christian friends who remain in Irak, they are divided. Some dream of a return to old days of an Irak that treats its Christian minority well and cherishes their presence. An Irak in other words that behaves like Syria and Jordan. There are many who have given up and are fleeing to Europe, to America, or to wherever will take them, finally there are some who want their own semi-autonomous region in the Plain of Ninawa. </p> <p>This last option the “Ninawa plains project” is fatally flawed. Its flaw is that the Kurds are determined to incorporate the Ninawa plains into what is rapidly evolving from an autonomous region to a de facto state while the governorate authorities and the government in Baghdad are equally determined to prevent the Kurdish land grab. The result is that Christians, especially Christian families with children, are vulnerable to intimidation and coercion from all sides. No wonder they flee.</p> </blockquote> </li> <li>Further coverage can be found here: <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=359720" class="external" target="_blank">Pope’s Pain at Christian Killings in Iraq (Vatican Radio)</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/During-Lenten-retreat,-Pope-prays-for-Iraqi-Christians-and-peace-in-the-country-17728.html" class="external" target="_blank">During Lenten retreat, Pope prays for Iraqi Christians and peace in the country (AsiaNews)</a> </li> </ul> </li> </ol> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8830"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/25/%d9%86%d8%b2%d9%88%d8%ad-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%b1-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%85%d9%86-%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%88%d8%b5%d9%84-%d8%ac%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84/#comments" title="Comment on نزوح اسر مسيحية من مدينة الموصل جراء العنف">1 Comment</a></span> Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Mohammed Al-Hamadani</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/25/%d9%86%d8%b2%d9%88%d8%ad-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%b1-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%85%d9%86-%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%88%d8%b5%d9%84-%d8%ac%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to نزوح اسر مسيحية من مدينة الموصل جراء العنف">نزوح اسر مسيحية من مدينة الموصل جراء العنف</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/category/human-rights/" title="View all posts in Human Rights" rel="category tag">Human Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/category/war-crimes/" title="View all posts in War Crimes" rel="category tag">War Crimes</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/aishwa-maroki-murder-of/" rel="tag">Aishwa Maroki - 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We have in the last few days evacuated the families of two Christian team members in Mosul. We expect to evacuate the last two remaining familys later this week. The last Christian team member in Mosul intends to remain in the city without his family. </p> <p>Khalil Ibn Hussein.</p> </p></div> <p>Christian families are fleeing Mosul in droves in the aftermath of the murder of a Christian family in the city. </p> <p>Our correspondent in the city says the flight is a reminder of the 2008 exodus in which thousands of families fled the city. </p> <p>The fleeing families are heading for the string of Christian villages, towns, churches and monasteries to the east and north of the city. </p> <p>Anti-Christian attacks have intensified recently in the city, the second largest in Iraq. </p> <p>Five more Christians were killed in the past two weeks. Many Christians were openly told to leave or face the consequences. </p> <p>Violence has relatively receded in Iraq in the past two years, but Mosul remains one of the most volatile and violent in the country. </p> <p>Tensions are building up between Kurds and Arabs in Mosul and its outskirts which Kurdish militias have occupied. </p> <p>Kurdish militiamen are even heavily present inside the city itself. </p> <p>But neither the Kurdish militias nor Iraqi troops are doing enough to put an end to Christian suffering in the city. </p> <p>Observers say the Christians in the city are most probably paying for the struggle over territory between the Arab majority and Kurdish minority in the Province of Nineveh of which Mosul is the capital. </p> <p>Iraqi Christians are of divided loyalty despite their shaky situation. </p> <p>Some of their factions openly support the Kurds. Others have aligned with Arabs. </p> <p>The observers say the struggle over Christian votes might be one of the reasons behind the latest anti-Christian campaign. </p> <p>The Iraqi al-Qaeda branch could be involved. The group had vowed to derail the elections, only a few days away.</p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2010-02-24/kurd.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Christians flee Iraq’s Mosul</a> By Jareer Ahmad <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?code=ennewsen" class="external" target="_blank">Azzaman in English</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8803"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/24/christians-feel-heavy-loss-in-iraq-war/#respond" title="Comment on Christians feel heavy loss in Iraq war">No Comments</a></span> Posted on February 24th, 2010 by Khaled</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/24/christians-feel-heavy-loss-in-iraq-war/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Christians feel heavy loss in Iraq war">Christians feel heavy loss in Iraq war</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/category/human-rights/" title="View all posts in Human Rights" rel="category tag">Human Rights</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/disputed-areas/" rel="tag">"disputed" areas</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/assyrians/" rel="tag">Assyrians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/attacks-on-clergy/" rel="tag">Attacks on clergy</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baghdad/" rel="tag">Baghdad</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bartala/" rel="tag">Bartala</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bartala-district-east-mosul/" rel="tag">Bartala district east Mosul</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bartella/" rel="tag">Bartella</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/cardinal-delly/" rel="tag">Cardinal Delly</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/chaldean-catholic/" rel="tag">chaldean catholic</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/chaldeans/" rel="tag">Chaldeans</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-population-decline-of/" rel="tag">Christian population - 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He is like a gem in his red robe. But something drastic must happen soon before Christians disappear for good from this country,’ said human rights activist Pascale Warda, a former displacement and migration minister. </p> <p>Warda is an Assyrian Christian who lives in one of the most heavily guarded areas of Baghdad. Although she has a French passport, she does not consider exile a solution. </p> <p>‘We have to mobilize people in the streets of Iraq. And if that doesn’t work, then we will organize demonstrations in France and Australia,’ she said. </p> <p>About 1.5 million Christians lived in Iraq when the United States launched the invasion in the spring of 2003 to bring down the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein. Today, according to unofficial estimates, they number about 750,000. </p> <p>More than 730 Christians have been killed since the US-led invasion. The stark figures don’t provide a human face – the dead include a young man on his way to university and the owner of a housewares store, both killed in early February. Most Christian victims die in the capital, Baghdad, or in Mosul in the north where they are mixed up in the frontline of a power struggle between Arabs and Kurds. </p> <p>Among the Christians who have been killed are 12 clergymen who now are revered by their parishes as martyrs. Some of the slayings of students, pharmacists, doctors and priests are attributed to al-Qaeda terrorists. But who is responsible for the other killings? According to the Hammurabi human rights organization, more than 70 per cent of the murders of Christians were never explained. </p> <p>Most Iraqi Muslims have no complaints about their Christian neighbours. Some of them send their children to Christian schools, which have good reputations. But when it comes to protecting their buildings and churches, hardly anyone feels responsible. </p> <p>On Christmas Day when members of the Shiite Shabak community in the town of Batallah near Mosul tore down the Christmas decorations at an Assyrian Christian church. They complained about the celebration of Christian festivities during the Shiite mourning month of Muharram, which had started a week before Christmas. </p> <p>To Warda it was particularly shocking that in the latter incident the Shiites were armed and they drove police vehicles – the ominous combination of intolerance and power that has convinced so many Iraqi Christians to flee their homeland. </p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/features/article_1536089.php/Christians-feel-heavy-loss-in-Iraq-war-Feature" class="external" target="_blank">Christians feel heavy loss in Iraq war (Feature)</a> – By Anne-Beatrice Clasmann – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.dpa.de/" class="external" target="_blank">Deutsche Presse Agentur</a> – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/" class="external" target="_blank">Monsters and Critics</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8312"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/01/15/louis-sako-synod-of-middle-east-churches-mission-and-a-return-to-dialogue/#respond" title="Comment on Louis Sako: Synod of Middle East Churches: mission and a return to dialogue">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 15th, 2010 by Fatima Jameel</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/01/15/louis-sako-synod-of-middle-east-churches-mission-and-a-return-to-dialogue/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Louis Sako: Synod of Middle East Churches: mission and a return to dialogue">Louis Sako: Synod of Middle East Churches: mission and a return to dialogue</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/category/religion/" title="View all posts in Religion" rel="category tag">Religion</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/archbishop-louis-sako/" rel="tag">Archbishop Louis Sako</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/asia-news/" rel="tag">Asia News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/catholic-archbishop/" rel="tag">catholic archbishop</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/catholic-church/" rel="tag">Catholic Church</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/chaldean-catholic/" rel="tag">chaldean catholic</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/chaldean-church/" rel="tag">chaldean church</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-arab-contribution-to-region/" rel="tag">Christian Arab contribution to region</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-ecumenism-need-for/" rel="tag">Christian ecumenism - 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We need more unity among Christians, divided into countless groups and traditions. And a mature dialogue with Islamic communities, showing them the important contribution of Christians in the past and present history of Arab culture. </p> <p><strong>Editor’s Note:</strong> Louis Sako is the Archbishop of Kirkuk</p> </p></div> <p>Kirkuk (<a title="AsiaNews" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Synod-of-Middle-East-Churches:-mission-and-a-return-to-dialogue-17345.html" class="external" target="_blank">AsiaNews</a>) – Christians in the East are decreasing in numbers due to wars, migration, low birth rates, the expansion of Islam and divisions within the community itself. The threats and pressures to sell land and houses, bought by Muslims and with the support – including economic – of fundamentalists, suggests that the Christian presence in the Middle East is destined disappear.    </p> <p>The Synod of the Churches of the Middle East can help us avoid this fate if we go to the roots of the crisis.  </p> <p>The early Church (which was Middle Eastern) was close to people and presented the Gospel message conforming to the culture of the people, proclaiming the faith in their own language, so that the message was attractive and effective. The prophetic role of the Church was manifest and worked in the truth and from it, people were able to derive meaning for their lives and a sign of great freedom and dignity. For this reason, many converted and decided to embrace Christianity.    <br/>Today, the Christian presence is a cultural one, a historical and tradition-bound presence, an ethnic identity according to the millet system, which is a perfected form of the Institute of Islamic dhimma [the pact of "protection" for non-Muslims, which made Christians and Jews second class citizens - ed.] The Apostolic Churches, however, have lost the enthusiasm of their origins in the work of witness: the role of prophecy, love and zeal for the proclamation of the Gospel to others.    </p> <p>The future of the community depends on several factors, two of which are of fundamental importance: the relationship between Christians, i.e relations between the different Churches and the relationship with Muslims.  </p> <h3>The relations between Christians    </h3> <p>Christians today need to promote, in a continuous and influential manner, a culture of love and dialogue, openness and diversity. Current divisions leave a strong and negative mark on their presence and their testimony. The relationship between the various churches is going through difficult times and seems to move backward.    </p> <p>The Church is the community of believers who look to Christ and testify to the announcement of Good News, which is continuously renewed. The Church can not merely limit itself to being a sociological, ethnic or cultural entity… Preaching the Gospel means welcoming the Good News with the commitment to live it and correcting erred behaviour. Baptism becomes the culmination of the journey of faith. This should be done not only with the elite, but also with simple people.      </p> <p>Most churches in the Middle East are small churches and live with an identity crisis because of their dual membership (i.e.: ethnic identity of a political, social and cultural nature and the one linked to the universality of their mission). And groups of evangelical churches: do we call them churches in the nominal sense or are they rooted or tradition?      We need a serious self-criticism and to reconsider our reality and our mission. The future depends on our cooperation, our service and our witness. We are one family, we must overcome the barriers that divide us. We are united in the Word of God, we have the same profession of faith, despite the differences in form, and generally, the same sacraments. We must strive for mutual enrichment and deepen all the peculiarities of our faith in God’s love, forgiveness, the joy that comes from welcoming.    </p> <p>We all need to be patient and learn to read history, to assess the facts impartially without emotion. The real strategy is to work together Christians of Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Palestine. Even the Christian political parties are divided and in conflict, they must unite to support the Christian presence, otherwise our fate will be of wailing and lamentation in front of our land.    </p> <h3>Dialogue with Islam    </h3> <p>Today the affirmation of political Islam is clear. It has made this religious identity the central one in the Middle East. This identity has overshadowed the Arab nationalist ideology (the umma) and political participation derives from the principles of Islam.    </p> <p>Together Christian churches and not isolated, must talk to face this reality and establish rules of civil coexistence.    </p> <p>Dialogue with Islam is the only civilian rule, effective for interacting with everyone, taking into account all that has been achieved over the course of history especially during the periods known as the Ommiad (7th – 8th century) and Abbasids (8th – 13th  century).    </p> <p>Christians have an obligation today to offer theological approaches to the faith in a new and understandable language, the line of biblical theology rather than in a classic, philosophical language.  </p> <p>In this dialogue, they must be allowed to demonstrate the contribution they have given to the Arab and Islamic civilization, the history of these regions is not entirely Muslim, but pluralistic, and make sure it is recognised that the Christian Arab factor is a source of enrichment rather than depletion . They must clearly state that they had no relation with the Crusaders when they invaded the East; nor with the colonial powers that invaded the Arab countries without taking the national charter into account; nor with the occupation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan; they have always supported the cause of the Palestinians. These points are very important at the level of Muslim public awareness.    <br/>Dialogue is the only way to resolve differences and restore security and stability. The opening up of Christians, their qualifications and skills may be useful for Muslims. For this we must encourage:    </p> <p>a) adoption of new programs of religious education, based on tolerance and acceptance of others, refraining from all forms of violence.    </p> <p>b) ensure that all are equal before law with equal rights – without any discrimination of race, religion or sex – which creates trust and improves coexistence, strengthening the sense of responsibility of each individual.    </p> <p>c) a commitment to promoting and encouraging solidarity with the poor and marginalized, whatever their race, colour or religion, overcoming injustices and wrongs.   </p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Synod-of-Middle-East-Churches:-mission-and-a-return-to-dialogue-17345.html" class="external" target="_blank">VATICAN – MIDDLE EAST Synod of Middle East Churches: mission and a return to dialogue</a> by Archbishop Louis Sako – <a 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dramatically, estimating that only a quarter of the 2.1 million who lived there before the war still remain. </p> <p>Other estimates have placed the number of Christian residents slightly higher, but also say the figure has at least halved. </p> <p>‘Christians in Iraq are going through miserable conditions,’ Hawal Ziqiya Masho, with the religious group, was quoted by the Voices of Iraq news agency as saying the day after Christmas. </p> <p>Earlier this week, a bombing near two churches in the northern of Mosul killed two people and injured five others, while damaging the buildings. </p> <p>Six people were also injured on Friday in clashes between Iraq’s Christian and Shabak minorities near a church in the northern Iraqi town of Bartala, witnesses said. </p> <p>Shabak residents, who are Shiite Muslims, and Christians fought near the town’s church after the Christmas service, following accusations that the Christians had torn down a poster of the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson, Hussein, near the church. </p> <p>Security officials intervened to restore order. </p> <p>Mosul and its environs are among the most ethnically and religiously diverse areas in Iraq, and among the most dangerous. </p> <p>Nearly seven years after the US-led invasion of the city, residents of all ethnicities continue to die in near-daily bombings and shootings in and around the city. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1521535.php/Report-1-960-Christians-killed-in-Iraq-since-2003-invasion" class="external" target="_blank">Report: 1,960 Christians killed in Iraq since 2003 invasion – Monsters and Critics</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8060"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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أنسى الظلم الذي لحق بنا كعائلة من قبل الإرهابيين الذين شوهوا الدين". </p> <p>وتذكرت زوجته أمل كوركيس أقاربها وقالت بألم "مدن الدنيا كلها لا تعوض أحياءنا وبيوتنا التي تركناها خوفا من الموت". </p> <p><strong> <br/>ذكريات مرة وحلوة <br/></strong></p> <p>وتوجد في السليمانية كنيستان الأولى كنيسة مريم العذراء <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A9" class="external" target="_blank">للكلدان الكاثوليك</a> وقد تأسست حوالي عام <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/1862" class="external" target="_blank">1862</a> في حي صابونكران وسط المدينة والتي شهدت القداس الاحتفالي ليل الخميس، فيما شيدت الثانية عام 2000 في حي المهندسين. </p> <p>ويقول قس كنيسة مار يوسف في السليمانية صليوة رسام "، تحمل كنيسة مريم العذراء الذكريات الحلوة والمرة لمسيحي السليمانية ويضيف" ستشهد صباح غد فيها اكبر قداس احتفالي" </p> <p>من جانبه يقول رئيس الجمعية الكلدانية نحو السلام ومقرها السليمانية هاول قيزقيا مشو إن "أوضاع المسيحيين في العراق لم تتحسن وهي مرتبطة بالوضع العام في البلاد". </p> <p>ويضيف مشو في حديث لـ "السومرية نيوز" "المسيحيون في إقليم كردستان يعيشون بقلق بسبب تلك الأوضاع". </p> <p>ويوضح قائلا "إحصاءاتنا تشير إلى ان 4500 مسيحي قد اختطف منذ 2005 وان 1960 شخصا قتل، وهناك آلاف المهجرين بينهم 450 عائلة تعيش في السليمانية". </p> <p>ويؤكد مشو "لا استقرار لأي عائلة مسيحية في الإقليم مادام هناك ظلم يحلق بعوائلنا في مناطق أخرى". </p> <p><strong> <br/>الحديث عن معوقات وانتهاكات</strong></p> <p>أما مدير عام مديرية شؤون المسيحيين خالد جمال البيرت، فيعرب عن اعتقاده بأن "المهجرين يعيشون بأمان في الإقليم، وتشملهم الامتيازات التي يحصل عليها سكان الإقليم". </p> <p>ويشير البيرت في حديث لـ "السومرية نيوز"  الى ان "حكومة الإقليم تحتضن 15 الف عائلة وترعى أوضاعهم المعيشية. وهناك من حصل على أرض في اربيل". </p> <p>وكان تقرير لوزارة الخارجية الأمريكية تحدث عن معوقات أمام حرية الأديان وانتهاكات في العراق. ولم يستثن التقرير إقليم كردستان العراق. </p> <p>ويوضح مدير عام مديرية شؤون المسيحيين ان "تقرير الخارجية الأمريكية لم يميز بين الارهاب الذي يطارد المسيحيين والطوائف الأخرى وبين الأمان وحرية تنظيم الطقوس الدينية للطوائف المختلفة". </p> <p>ويتابع البيرت ان "التقرير لم يميز أيضاً بين الإقليم الذي يحتضن الضحايا وبين المناطق غير الآمنة التي تنتهك فيها حرية المعتقدات". </p> <p><strong> <br/>تمييز بين القوميات</strong></p> <p>لكن الأستاذ في جامعة السليمانية الدكتور أياد قصار يقول إن "هناك تمييزا في الامتيازات المقدمة لأساتذة الجامعة من الكرد وبين الأساتذة من القوميات الأخرى كالآشوريين والكلدان والعرب". </p> <p>والدكتور نصار من سكان بغداد وقد جاء الى السليمانية للعيش والعمل منذ سقوط النظام السابق. </p> <p>ويضيف الدكتور نصار في حديث لـ "السومرية نيوز" "الأساتذة الكرد حصلوا على قطع أراض، أما نحن العرب فلم نحصل على شيء". </p> <p><strong> <br/>القتل يتعارض مع الدين</strong></p> <p>أما المهجر سامي مجيد صليوة فيرى ان "المشكلة الكبيرة التي تواجه العوائل المسيحية في مدن الإقليم بشكل عام والسليمانية بشكل خاص هي السكن". </p> <p>ويضيف صليوة في حديث لـ "السومرية نيوز" ان "جميع العوائل المسيحية تقريبا تسكن في بيوت أو شقق يتراوح إيجارها بين 300 إلى 500 دولار أمريكي". </p> <p>وكانت مدينة السليمانية شهدت إحياء قداس منتصف الليل أمس الخميس وحضره المئات من مواطني الطائفة المسيحية فضلا عن رئيس أساقفة كركوك للكلدان المطران لويس ساكو. </p> <p>وقال ساكو في كلمة له بعد القداس ان "الانقسام داخل المجتمع الواحد يتعارض مع مفهوم الدين، والقتل يتعارض مع الدين". </p> <p>وأضاف "نحن المسيحيين الذين رأينا كيف تضرب كنائسنا في الموصل وبغداد بهدف اقتلاعنا من أرضنا، يجب ان نتمسك بديننا وأرضنا ووطننا". </p> <p>يذكر أن في إقليم كردستان العراق 96 كنيسة، اثنتان منها في محافظة السليمانية، نحو 360 كم شمال بغداد. </p> <p>ويبلغ عدد المسيحيين في العراق قبيل تغيير النظام السابق في نيسان 2003  نحو مليون ونصف المليون نسمة، غير أنه انخفض في ما بعد بسبب أعمال العنف التي طالتهم فهاجر قسم كبير منهم إلى الخارج، ويقدر عددهم اليوم بحسب إحصاءات غير رسمية بحدود 750 ألف نسمة. </p> <p>ويضم العراق أربعة طوائف مسيحية رئيسية هي الكلدانية "أتباع كنيسة المشرق المتحولين إلى الكثلكة، والسريانية الأرثوذكسية، والسريانية الكاثوليكية، والطائفة اللاتينية الكاثوليكية، والآشورية (أتباع الكنيسة الشرقية)، إضافة إلى أعداد قليلة من أتباع كنائس الأرمن والأقباط والبروتستانت، ويختلف المسيحيون الغربيون عن الشرقيين في موعد احتفالهم بعيد ميلاد السيد المسيح، فبينما يحتفل الكاثوليك والبروتستانت به في الخامس والعشرين من كانون الأول، فان الأرثوذكس في الشرق يحتفلون به في السابع من كانون الثاني من كل عام. </p> <p><strong>المصدر : </strong>  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/4/1666/news-details-Iraqi%20stories.html" class="external" target="_blank">السومرية نيوز | قصص عراقية | مسيحيو السليمانية يحيون القداس وسط مشاعر القلق من الوضع الأمني في البلاد</a></p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-7974"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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كنيستان في الموصل الثلاثاء لهجومين اسفرا عن مقتل رضيع وجرح اربعين شخصا آخرين. فقد انفجرت سيارة مفخخة عند كنيسة مريم العذراء للسريان الارثوذكس (وسط) على مقربة من مدرسة "الغساسنة" المسيحية، وفقا لمصدر في الشرطة ما ادى وفقا لمصدر طبي في مستشفى مدينة الطب في الموصل الى "مقتل طفل واصابة اربعين شخصا، بينهم خمسة اطفال بجروح". كما استهدف انفجار اخر بعبوة ناسفة كنيسة للسريان الكاثوليك في حي الشرطة (شمال) دون وقوع ضحايا، وفقا لمصدر في الشرطة.</p> <p>وفي 26 تشرين الثاني/نوفمبر، استهدف انفجاران كنيسة للكلدان وديرا للرهبان الدومينيكان في الموصل دون وقوع خسائر في الارواح. وفي اواخر 2008 استهدفت حملة من اعمال العنف المسيحيين وادت الى مقتل اربعين مسيحيا ورحيل اكثر من 12 الفا من مختلف الطوائف المسيحية الى خارج العراق.</p> </p></div> </blockquote> <p dir="rtl" align="right"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j1iQnJm-mBKm1NL_q9Fuf59Ya_NQ" class="external" target="_blank">AFP: الجيش العراقي في "حالة انذار" لحماية المسيحبين خلال 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align="right"> <p>The Iraqi army has been put on alert because of threats against the country’s Christian minority over the coming Christmas holidays, the defence ministry spokesman said on Friday.</p> <p>"We have put our forces on alert in Baghdad, the provinces of Kirkuk and Nineveh, including its capital Mosul, where our Christian brothers will be celebrating their holidays, because we have intelligence indicating they could be attacked during this period," General Mohammed al-Askari told <a title="AFP" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.france24.com/en/node/4951490" class="external" target="_blank">AFP</a>.</p> <p>Askari said the latest attacks on churches "carry the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda, and we are going to take serious measures to assure the security of churches and avoid terrorist attacks."</p> <p>Hundreds of Christians have been murdered since the US-led invasion that overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003, and tens of thousands have fled the country. The community has dwindled from 800,000 to around 550,000 now.</p> <p>On Thursday, Christian Zeid Majid Yussef, 30, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in the main northern city of Mosul.</p> <p>Two days earlier, bombers struck two churches in Mosul, killing a baby and wounding at least 40 people, among them schoolchildren, police and medics said.</p> <p>One bomb struck the Syrian Catholic Church of the Annunciation. The second, a car bomb, struck the Syrian Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary and an adjacent Christian school in the city centre, police said.</p> <p>And on November 26, bombs hit a church and a convent in Mosul, causing severe damage but no casualties.</p> <p>Last year, thousands of Christians fled Mosul in the face of violence that claimed the lives of 40 members of the community.</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://www.france24.com/en/node/4951490" class="external" target="_blank">France24 – Iraq army on alert over threats against Christians</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130130011432/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-population-decline-of/page/2/">« Previous Entries</a></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="span-10 last"> <div class="span-10" id="tabs"> <ul> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a 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