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We are afraid in some way, of such results, we are waiting, we are praying that the situation of Iraq is not repeated in Syria, for example." </p> </blockquote> <div style="border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; padding-left: 5px; width: 48%; padding-right: 5px; float: right; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <p>Listen to Chris Altieri’s report: </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://212.77.9.15/audio/ra/00264776.RM" class="external" target="_blank">Real Audio:</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://212.77.9.15/audiomp3/00264776.MP3" class="external" target="_blank">MP3</a>: </li> </ul></div> <p>Deadly violence against anti-government protestors in Syria has intensified, with more than 60 civilians reportedly killed in incidents throughout the country heading into the weekend. Since it began 11 weeks ago, </p> <p>Christians have been participating in the reform agitation along with Syrians from other minority groups, including many from President Bashar al-Assad’s own Alawite community. Nevertheless, there is a persistent public perception that Christians favour the Ba’ath party regime of Assad. </p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/06/06/syria-violent-unrest-raises-concern-for-christian-future-vatican-radio/#more-13469" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13432"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/23/%d8%a5%d8%ad%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%85-2010-%d9%83%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%82%d8%b3%d9%89-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a-%d8%a7/#respond" title="Comment on إحصائية: العام 2010 كان الأقسى على مسيحيي العراق">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 23rd, 2011 by Editors</div> <h3><a 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حمورابي لحقوق الانسان</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/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">كشفت منظمة حمورابي لحقوق الانسان العراقية ان العام 2010 كان الأسوأ على ابناء الجالية المسيحية في العراق، وان استمرار الاستهداف المباشر لهم زاد من هجرتهم لخارج العراق. <br/>ووصف وليم وردا رئيس المنظمة الأرقام التي تم إحصاءها خلال العام الماضي بالمخيفة كونها كانت أسوء مما سُجل في الاعوام الأسبق، نظراً لاستهداف المسحيين بكافة مسمياتهم، وفي كافة أرجاء البلاد خاصة بغداد والموصل. <br/>واضاف انه وخلال عام واحد تعرض 92 مسيحي للاغتيال وأصيب 280 آخرين، بالإضافة لتفجير كنيستين في بغداد واختطاف فتاتين في بغداد والموصل، فضلاً عن تلقي عشرات رسائل التهديد بالتصفية. <br/>واكد وردا ان هذه الاحداث أجبرت اكثر من 1800 عائلة مسيحية على النزوح لمناطق مختلفة من سهل نينوى وتوقف اكثر من 1700 طالب عن الدراسة و300 موظف دولة.</p> </div> </div> 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/statistics/" rel="tag">statistics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b8%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%ad%d9%85%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a8%d9%8a-%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%82%d9%88%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%86/" rel="tag">منظمة حمورابي لحقوق الانسان</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/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"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <p>The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://www.hhro.org/hhro/index.php?lang=en" target="_blank" class="external">Hammurabi Organisation for Human Rights</a> revealed today that the year 2010 was the worst for the people of the Christian community in Irak, and that in response to the continuation of the direct targeting of them they increased their migration out of Irak. </p> <p>Last year was worse than previous years due to the increased targeting of Christians of all denominations in all parts of the country but especially in Baghdad and Mosul.</p> <p>During the year 92 Christians were murdered and another 280 wounded. Additionally there was the bombing of two churches in Baghdad and the kidnapping of two girl chlidren one in Baghdad and one in Mosul. Furthermore many Christian families received letters threatening their liquidation. </p> <p>In response to this persecution more than 1800 Christian families have been forced to flee their homes to different parts of the Nineveh Plain. More than 1700 students no longer dare attend their study and 300 state employees have abandoned their posts in response to threats of death.</p> <p>Mohammed Ibn Laith</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13341"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/11/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%8a%d8%ba%d8%a7%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82-%d8%a8%d9%82%d9%84%d9%88%d8%a8-%d8%ad%d8%b2%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a9/#respond" title="Comment on المسيحيون يغادرون العراق بقلوب حزينة">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 11th, 2011 by markfromireland</div> <h3><a 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الهجمات المستمرة ضد الطائفة المسيحية التي ينتمي اليها اقنعته بان وطنه العراق لم يعد يقدم له العزاء لذا قرر الهرب في 30 نيسان/أبريل الماضي. <br/>وقال بسام (25 عاما) مدرس علوم الحياة قبل مغادرته في احد المطاعم لوكالة فرانس برس "في السابق كنت متفائلا جدا" لكن "منذ الهجوم الدامي بدأت ادرك أنه ليس هناك أمل في هذا البلد بعد الآن وادركت ان الرحيل هو الحل الوحيد".</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/11/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%8a%d8%ba%d8%a7%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82-%d8%a8%d9%82%d9%84%d9%88%d8%a8-%d8%ad%d8%b2%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a9/#more-13341" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12229"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/20/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%84%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%83%d9%88-%d9%8a%d8%a4%d9%83%d8%af-%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%b6%d9%87-%d9%84%d9%87%d8%ac%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3/#respond" title="Comment on المطران لويس ساكو يؤكد رفضه لهجرة المسيحيين">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 20th, 2011 by Umm Fatima</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/20/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%84%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%83%d9%88-%d9%8a%d8%a4%d9%83%d8%af-%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%b6%d9%87-%d9%84%d9%87%d8%ac%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to المطران لويس ساكو يؤكد رفضه لهجرة المسيحيين">المطران لويس ساكو يؤكد رفضه لهجرة المسيحيين</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/archbishop-louis-sako/" rel="tag">Archbishop Louis Sako</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-exodus/" rel="tag">christian exodus</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">اكد رئيس اساقفة كركوك المطران لويس ساكو رفضه لهجرة المسيحيين لانها خسارة كبيرة للتعددية في العراق. ودعا ساكو الى حماية المسيحيين ورعايتهم. </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12166"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/08/%d8%ae%d8%b7%d8%a9-%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%83%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d9%85%d8%af%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%a7/#respond" title="Comment on خطة لإعمار كنيسة مدمرة بالأنبار واتهامات لعناصر أمن بالتواطؤ ضد المسيحيين">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 8th, 2011 by Mohammed Ibn Laith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/08/%d8%ae%d8%b7%d8%a9-%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%83%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d9%85%d8%af%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%a7/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to خطة لإعمار كنيسة مدمرة بالأنبار واتهامات لعناصر أمن بالتواطؤ ضد المسيحيين">خطة لإعمار كنيسة مدمرة بالأنبار واتهامات لعناصر أمن بالتواطؤ ضد المسيحيين</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/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/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/category/religion/" title="View all posts in Religion" rel="category tag">Religion</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-anbar-governorate/" rel="tag">Al Anbar (Governorate)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-exodus/" rel="tag">christian exodus</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians-persecution-collusion-of-army-and-police/" rel="tag">Christians - persecution collusion of army and police</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ethnic-cleansing-of-christians/" rel="tag">Ethnic cleansing of Christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/gzg-failure-to-protect-christians/" rel="tag">GZG failure to protect Christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sunni-endowment/" rel="tag">Sunni Endowment</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote> <p>أعلن مجلس محافظة الانبار، الجمعة، عن وضع خطة "سريعة" لإعادة إعمار كنيسة المشرق الاثورية مار كوركيس شرق الرمادي التي دمرت عام 2006 بالتعاون مع الوقف السني، فيما اتهم مجلس إنقاذ الانبار عناصر أمنية بالتواطؤ ضد المسيحيين في المحافظة. </p> <p>وكشف نائب رئيس مجلس محافظة الانبار سعدون عبيد الشعلان في حديث لــ"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/2/15676/news-details-.html" target="_blank" class="external">السومرية نيوز</a>"، عن "خطة سريعة لإعادة إعمار كنيسة مار كوركيس التي دمرت من قبل الجماعات الإرهابية قبل سنوات أسوة بعملية إعمار المساجد"، لافتاً إلى أن "دائرة الوقف السني رحبت بالخطة وتم الاتفاق على البدء بتنفيذها سريعاً". </p> <p>وكانت كنسية المشرق الاثورية مار كوركيس تعرضت للتدمير في العام 2006، إثر قصفها بقذائف هاون، الأمر الذي أدى إلى إغلاقها، واضطرار من تبقى من مسيحيي المحافظة إلى التوجه لكنائس بغداد لممارسة طقوسهم الدينية. </p> <p>وطالب الشعلان "المسيحيين الانباريين الذين غادروا المحافظة خلال السنوات الماضية بالعودة إليها"، مشيراً إلى أن "جميع حقوقهم محفوظة والأمن في الانبار مستتب أكثر من المحافظات الأخرى، كما أن قوات الأمن قادرة على قطع اليد التي تطالهم بسوء لأنهم مكون أساسي في المحافظة ولا يقلون عن إخوانهم المسلمين"، بحسب تعبيره. </p> <p>من جهته، اتهم رئيس مجلس إنقاذ الانبار الشيخ حميد الهايس تنظيم القاعدة ومليشيات لم يسمها بـ"الوقوف وراء تصاعد وتيرة استهداف المسيحيين"، مؤكداً "تواطؤ عناصر أمنية مع تلك الجهات لتنفيذ عمليات الاستهداف". </p> <p>ودعا الهايس في حديث لـ"السومرية نيوز"، "الإخوة المسيحيين إلى عدم ترك العراق لأنهم بذلك ينفذون رغبات القاعدة والمليشيات الأخرى"، لافتاً إلى أنه "تم توفير منازل ومجمعات سكنية للراغبين منهم بالعودة إلى الانبار، كما سيتم توفير فرص عمل لهم". </p> <p>وكان نحو 30 ألف مسيحي يسكنون في محافظة الانبار قبل العام 2003 ويتمركزون في الحبانية، لكن أحداث العنف الطائفي والهجمات التي استهدفت المسيحيين في العراق عموماً أدت إلى نزوح الغالبية الساحقة منهم والتوجه إلى محافظات إقليم كردستان، في حين تشير مصادر رسمية في المحافظة إلى بقاء نحو 20 أسرة مسيحية فقط. </p> <p>وتعرض المسيحيون في العراق بعد العام 2003 للعديد من الهجمات المسلحة كان أعنفها حادثة كنيسة سيدة النجاة في العاصمة بغداد حيث احتجز مسلحون مجهولون، في الحادي والثلاثين من شهر تشرين الأول الماضي، عشرات الرهائن من المصلين الذين كانوا يقيمون قداس الأحد، وأسفر الاعتداء عن مقتل وإصابة ما لا يقل عن 125 شخصاً، فيما تبنى الهجوم تنظيم ما يعرف بـ"دولة العراق الإسلامية" التابع لتنظيم القاعدة، مهدداً باستهداف المسيحيين في العراق مؤسسات وأفراد.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>المصدر : </strong>  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/2/15676/news-details-.html" class="external" target="_blank">السومرية نيوز | امن العراق | خطة لإعمار كنيسة مدمرة بالأنبار واتهامات لعناصر أمن بالتواطؤ ضد المسيحيين</a></p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12067"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/01/%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%af%d9%88%d9%86%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%ad%d8%b0%d8%b1-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86/#respond" title="Comment on وردوني يحذر من تهجير المسيحيين">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 1st, 2011 by Um Thalit</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/01/%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%af%d9%88%d9%86%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%ad%d8%b0%d8%b1-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to وردوني يحذر من تهجير المسيحيين">وردوني يحذر من تهجير المسيحيين</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/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/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/category/religion/" title="View all posts in Religion" rel="category tag">Religion</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bishop-shelmon-wardoni/" rel="tag">Bishop Shelmon Wardoni</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-exodus/" rel="tag">christian exodus</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians-persecution-of/" rel="tag">Christians - persecution of</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">شارك اقارب ومشيعون في جنازة ضحيتين مسيحيين قتلا في الهجمات التي استهدفت منازلهم ليل الخميس في بغداد وأدت أيضًا إلى جرح ما لا يقل عن ستة عشر آخرين. ووقعت التفجيرات بعد ان هدد متشددون مرتبطون بتنظيم القاعدة بتصعيد الهجمات ضد المسيحيين العراقيين خلال فترة عيد الميلاد. وتعليقا على الجريمة، اعتبر معاون رئيس مطرانية الكلدان في العراق شليمون وردوني انه لا توجد حماية حقيقية لجميع الأقليات في العراق، الأمر الذي يجعلهم فريسة سهلة من قبل الخارجين عن القانون، مؤكدا أن المسيحيين في العراق يعيشون بحال من الأسى والخوف في ظل عمليات الاستهداف المنظمة التي تنفذ ضدهم بهدف اخراجهم من البلاد. </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12036"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/12/28/%d9%85%d8%ad%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d8%ae%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%86%d8%a7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86-%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b2%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa-%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a9/#respond" title="Comment on محنة اخواننا المسيحيين مازالت مستمرة وخلو المنطقة منهم يمثل كارثة">No Comments</a></span> Posted on December 28th, 2010 by Abdus-Samad</div> 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العراق على امتداد الاف السنيين وكانوا  الحديقة التي تسر الناظرين اليها لكثرة الورودة الجميلة فيها  واليوم تقف كاتدرائيات المسيحيين صامتة فيما احياؤهم يهجرها سكانها.</p> <p>والمسيحيون في العراق يواجهون حقيقيتين ما كانتا تخطران بالبال: الاولى هي ان الاحتفالات بعيد الميلاد (يوم 25 كانون اول بالنسبة للكاثوليك والسادس من كانون ثاني بالنسبة للبروتستانت) قد الغيت. والثانية ان القليل فقط منهم يرغب بالاحتفال بالايام المقدسة القادمة.انها اسوأ سنوات يمر بها مسيحيو البلاد، فقد هرب الالاف في الشهر الماضي، وغادر الكثير منهم العراق خلال عام 2010 مقارنة بمن غادروا منذ الاحتلال عام 2003 اي قبل ثماني سنوات. ويقول الزعماء المسيحيون انها كانت اكثر السنوات الحاسمة في تاريخ المسيحيين الذي يمتد لالفي عام وسط بلاد العرب.وجرى آخر نزوح جماعي للمسيحيين بعد مذبحة الكنيسة الكاثوليكية الكلدانية في وسط بغداد على يد القاعدة في اليوم الاخير من شهر تشرين اول والتي خلفت حوالي 60 قتيلا، وبحدود مئة معوق وجالية مرعوبة تتوجس الشر. ومنذ ذلك الحين، والجماعة الإرهابيةَ تستهدف المسيحيين في بيوتهم، بضمنهم أفراد عائلة نجت من هجوم كنيسة سيدة النجاة.وألغيت مراسم عيد الميلاد في بغداد، إضافة إلى المدن الشمالية الموصل وكركوك مخافة وقوع اعمال عنف اخرى. وفي حينها قال الزعماء الكنسيون انهم لن يعلقوا زينة عيد الميلاد ولن يحتفلوا بقداس منتصف الليل. وأخبروا العوائل أَنْ لا يقوموا بتزيين بيوتهم مخافة ان تنفذ القاعدة هجمات بعد ان كررت تهديداتها باستهداف المسيحيين في وقت سابق.ويقول رئيس الوقف المسيحي في العراق عبد الله النوفلي ان "اكثر من 80 % من مسيحيي العراق لم يعودوا يذهبون الى الكنائس. ولم تعد هناك مدارس يوم الاحد، ومدارس (خاصة) بتعليم المسيحيين. وحول عيد الميلاد كان القرار ان نقوم بقداس واحد في حين كنا نقوم في السابق بعدة قداسات".وكانت كنيسة النوفلي اغلقت وتم تحصينها في عام 2005 بعد ان استنزف العنف بغداد. لكن العديد من الكنائس ظلت مفتوحة منذ تلك الفترة وحتى الان. ومن المعتقد ان عشر كنائس على الاقل أغلِقتْ في أعقاب الهجوم على كنيسة سيدة للنجاة، اما الكنائس الاخرى فكان التواجد فيها قليلا جدا.ووصل عديد السكان المسيحيين في العراق الى النصف منذ الاطاحة بصدام. لكن نسبة المغادرين ارتفعت في الشهرين السابقين. وتذكر اللجنة العليا لشؤون اللاجئين التابعة للأمم المتحدة ان أعدادا عالية من المسيحيين العراقيين يقومون بالتسجيل في سوريا والأردن ولبنان. وفي شمال العراق الكردي، تزايدت اعداد اللاجئين بكثرة طاغية.ويستمر وصول المسيحيين الى الشمال العراقي منذ ان قدم مسعود بارزاني رئيس اقليم كردستان الحماية والمأوى لهم بعد المذبحة.ويقول المسؤولون الاكراد ان الف عائلة على الاقل وافقت على ما عرضه بارزاني. ويعتقد عبد الله النوفلي ان العدد اكثر من ذلك. ويقول ان الاكراد كانوا مرحبين ودافئين. لكنه يخشى ان الانتقال الى هناك لن يقدم للجماعة المسيحية حلا دائما.ويضيف "لقد رأينا في كردستان انه لا تتوفر القدرة على قبول الطلاب في الجامعات. ولا توجد مقاعد دراسية كافية لهم. ويجب ان يكون (للمسيحيين) فرصة للتعلم والعمل. فالمشكلة ليست امنية فقط".وفي لبنان يتم تفحص محنة مسيحيي العراق بدقة. ويقول الاب يوسف مونس من مجلس الكنائس الكاثوليكية في الشرق الأوسط "نحن نتفهم الصدمة التي يعانيها المسيحيون العراقيون. ونريدهم ان يعرفوا اننا لن نتركهم لوحدهم".ويضيف "هناك قضايا قديمة يتم العمل عليها. وهؤلاء الاشخاص [القاعدة] يقتلون بسبب فتوى".وقد شكل مسيحيو لبنان مرة أغلبية سكانية. لكن الهجرة والحرب الاهلية الوحشية أنقصت الاعداد كثيرا. ويعتقد امين الجميل الرئيس اللبناني السابق والاب الحالي للعديد من المسيحيين ان هناك الكثير الذي يمكن للزعماء المسلمين القيام به لضمان ان لا يكون النزوح المسيحي شاملا.ويقول الجميل ان "المسيحيين كَانوا وطنيين تماما، انهم جزء من مؤسسات هذه المنطقة. ونحن لا نستطيع فهم مثل هذه السلبية القوية من قبل الزعماء. وعندما يتم تطهير المنطقة من الاديان الاخرى (ما عدا الاسلام) فعندها سيتم تسليمها للاصوليين".وفي الابرشية الكلدانية في بعبدا فوق بيروت يستقبل الاب حنا العوائل العراقية الهاربة من وطنها. ويقول "انا ساعود الى هناك واقدم الخدمات (الكنسية) حتى ولو بقي شخص واحد اذا توجب عليَّ ذلك. لكن حتى الان ليس من المحتمل القيام بذلك.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11986"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/12/24/christian-exodus-from-iraq-gathers-pace/#respond" title="Comment on Christian exodus 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are rapidly emptying. Now <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq</a>’s Christians face two further unthinkable realities: that Christmas this year is all but cancelled, and that few among them will stay around to celebrate future holy days.</p> <p>It has been the worst of years for the country’s Christians, with thousands fleeing in the past month and more leaving the country during 2010 than at any time since the invasion nearly eight years ago. Christian leaders say there have been few more defining years in their 2,000-year history in central Arabia.</p> <p> <a title="20102412_captioned_memorial_murdered_christians by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillasguides/5287899085/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto 5px" height="276" alt="20102412_captioned_memorial_murdered_christians" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802im_/http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5245/5287899085_689e1097d8_o.jpg" width="460"/></a> <p>The latest exodus follows a massacre led by al-Qaida at a Chaldean Catholic church in central Baghdad on 31 October, which left about 60 people dead, almost 100 maimed and an already apprehensive community terrified. Since then, the terrorist group has targeted Christians in their homes, including family members of those who survived the attack.</p> <p>In Baghdad, as well as the northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, Christmas services have been cancelled for fear of further violence. Church leaders said they would not put up Christmas decorations or celebrate midnight mass. They told families not to decorate their homes, for fear of attack after al-Qaida reiterated its threat to target Christians earlier this week.</p> <p>"Now more than 80% of Christians are not going to the churches," said the head of Iraq’s Christian Endowment group, Abdullah al-Noufali. "There is no more sunday school, no school for teaching Christianity. Yesterday we had a discussion about what we would do for Christmas. We took a decision just to do one mass. In years before we had many masses."</p> <p>Noufali’s church was closed and barricaded in 2005 when violence was consuming Baghdad. Many others had stayed open since then. Until now. In the wake of the attack on the Our Lady of Salvation church, at least 10 churches are believed to have been closed. At others, congregations are down to a handful.</p> <p>Iraq’s Christian population has halved since the ousting of Saddam Hussein. But in the past two months, the rate of departure has soared. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees is reporting high numbers of registrations by Christians in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. And in Iraq’s Kurdish north, the number of refugees is overwhelming.</p> <p>Christians have been arriving since the president of the Kurdish regional government, Massoud Barazani, offered them protection and refuge days after the massacre.</p> <p>Kurdish officials say at least 1,000 families have taken up the offer. Noufali believes the number is far higher. He says the Kurds have been warm and welcoming, but fears that moving there does not offer his community a long-term solution.</p> <p>"We have seen in Kurdistan that they have no ability to accept the Kurdish students in the universities," he said. "There are not enough chairs in the university for them. They must have opportunity to learn and work. The problem is not just security."</p> <p>In Lebanon, the plight of Iraq’s Christians is being carefully scrutinised. Father Yusef Muwaness, of the Council of Catholic Churches in the Middle East, said: "We understand the shock [the Iraqis] are enduring. We want them to know that they won’t be left alone.</p> <p>"There are ancient issues at work. These people [al-Qaida] are killing because of a fatwa. There has not been a mufti who has stood up and said this is wrong."</p> <p>Lebanon’s Christians once held a demographic majority. Emigration and a brutal civil war has whittled numbers away. Amin Gemayel, a former Lebanese president and now patriarch of many of the country’s remaining Christians, believes far more could be done by Muslim leaders to ensure that the exodus is not total.</p> <p>"The Christians were very nationalistic," he said. "They are part of the foundations of this area. We can’t understand such extremity then passivity from the leaders. When the region is completely cleansed of other religions (apart from Islam) it will be a surrender to the fundamentalists."</p> <p>In the Chaldean archdiocese in Baabda, above Beirut, Father Hanna has been receiving Iraqi families fleeing their homeland. "I would go back there to give a service in front of one person, if I had to," he said. "But even that may not be possible now. Since 1 November, we have seen 450 families register here. Many more have gone to the UN."</p> <p>Among those who have stayed in Iraq and tried to build a new life in the north, there are mixed feelings. "Three days after the church attack I left my house (in Baghdad) and came to the KRG," said Georges Qudah, 30, a pharmacy assistant. "At the main checkpoint I said we are a Christian family, and they said we are welcome to stay as long as we want. I feel safe and comfortable here, but the problem is how to live. The council here has given us blankets and beds, but housing is very expensive."</p> <p>In Baghdad, there are few signs of the joy of Christmas.</p> <p>"There is no hope here anymore," says Noufali. "No one can believe they [the Christians] will stay. Christmas came with two messages, peace in the world and hope for the people and we need these two things for our life in Iraq. If there are no more Christians here, I am certain Iraq will become a more dangerous country."</p> <h3>Christianity in the Middle East</h3> <p> Freedom of worship for Christians varies greatly across the Middle East. <p>In Lebanon, where about half the population are Christian, believers are allowed to practise their faith without fear of persecution. The Maronite Church is the largest, most politically active and influential denomination, holding 34 of the 64 Christian seats in the Lebanese parliament.</p> <p>In Jordan, Christians are free to profess their faith, build churches, schools, hospitals and universities. They attend mass and there are public celebrations of religious festivals and ceremonies. They experience less discrimination and more freedom than fellow believers in Egypt and Iraq. There is a similar portrait of stability and freedom in Syria, where Christians comprise up to 10% of the population.</p> <p>Evangelising bvy Protestants in Jordan has prompted a crackdown on churches, visas and summer camps. Attempting to convert Muslims is illegal, but there is no law against proselytising to other Christians and some Catholic and Orthodox groups have complained of energetic wooing from Protestants. It is this evangelising that has offended authorities, keen to avoid religious zealotry of any sort.</p> <p>What Saudi Arabia lacks in violent persecution it makes up for in outright intolerance. There is no religious freedom in Saudi Arabia, which counts a million Catholics in its population. The country allows Christians to enter for work purposes but severely restricts the practise of their faith.</p> <p>Christians worship in private homes and there are bans on religious articles including Bibles, crucifixes, statues, carvings and items bearing religious symbols. The religious police bar the practice of any religion other than Islam. Conversion of a Muslim to another religion is considered apostasy and carries a death sentence if the accused does not recant. Still, Christians in Saudi Arabia are positively blessed compared with those of Iraq. <strong>Riazat Butt</strong></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/23/iraq-christian-exodus-christmas" class="external" target="_blank">Christian exodus from Iraq gathers pace</a> | by Martin Chulov in Baghdad |  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://www.guardian.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="external">The Guardian</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11944"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/12/14/analysis-an-exodus-of-christians-from-iraq/#respond" title="Comment on Analysis: An exodus of Christians from Iraq">No Comments</a></span> Posted on December 14th, 2010 by Yusuf Al-Jezani</div> <h3><a 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rel="tag">UNHCR</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">الإسلام‎</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="border-right: black 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: black 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; width: 360px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"> <p>“What is often unnoticed in the Middle East is the devastating effect of U.S. policy on Christians in the region. U.S. policymakers have never taken the plight of Christians seriously, whether in Iraq or in Lebanon. There may be protests of specific violations, but not in those areas where the U.S. or Israelis have other strategic interests. For all the communication with U.S. government over the past 20 years, I have seen no serious action from any administration to improve protection for Christians. Religious freedom is basically a reporting matter and no more.”<img style="display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto 5px" height="286" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802im_/http://gorillasguides.com/images/UNHCRstartstohelphundredsofIraqiChristia_33C/20081024_christian_refugee_child_syria.jpg" width="359"/></p> <p>"Iraqi Christians represent only 3 percent of the population, they account for 20 percent of the Iraqis who have emigrated abroad."</p> <p>"That’s largely because they have the connections to Western churches and family members who are already abroad in places like Detroit, Toronto, Los Angeles and elsewhere and therefore have a better chance of getting out."</p> </p></div> <p>WASHINGTON — A steady exodus of Christians from the Middle East and — most dramatically — from Iraq since the October slaughter of 57 churchgoers in Baghdad, has a long and layered history.</p> <p>The diminishing Christian presence in the land where the faith began some 2,000 years ago is an issue about which anyone — of any faith, or of no faith — who is concerned about the future of the Middle East, should care deeply.</p> <p>But when it comes out of a simple, emotional response by a Christian West wanting to defend a Christian minority in the East during Christmas time, it leads down a dangerous road in history. It’s a perilous path that sets out from the Crusades, when England and France marched off to save the Holy Land and its Christians from Muslim conquest, and one littered with moral hazards and potential for even greater violence.</p> <p>The whole message of the New Testament would be to care about all who are suffering in war-torn Iraq, not just Christians. And there are lots of people suffering in Iraq.</p> <p>So the starting point to understanding the lessons of the recent Iraqi Christian exodus is to not allow the religious extremists — neither Muslim nor Christian nor any other faith — to exploit the attacks and present them out of context as a “clash of civilizations,” that self-fulfilling prophecy coined by the late Harvard University historian, Samuel Huntington.</p> <p>A glimpse of the writing on the wall can be seen along the back alleys in the Iraqi Christian neighborhoods of Baghdad and Mosul. That’s where a militant fringe has for years been scribbling anti-Christian hatred in the form of graffiti.</p> <p>A particularly ominous anti-Christian bit of graffiti, which I first saw spray-painted on walls at least 12 years ago in Egypt when Islamic fundamentalists were targeting Coptic Christians, has reportedly resurfaced in Iraq in recent months. The translation from the Arabic slogan is this: “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.”</p> <p>The phrase is an overt threat intended to say that Muslims, who worship on Friday, have already pushed many Jews, who worship on Saturday, out of the Middle East and that now they will do the same to the Christians.</p> <p>Long before Sept. 11 and the “War on Terror,” it often felt like Selma, Ala. circa 1960 in many Christian minority communities of the Middle East.</p> <p>This climate of threat and intimidation and sometimes violence has been boiling to the surface in places around the world where the Muslim majority collides with a Christian minority, such as Egypt, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, Nigeria and elsewhere.</p> <p>But nowhere is a palpable sense of fear and a Christian exodus from the Middle East more dramatic right now than Iraq, where analysts estimate that fully half of the country’s Christians have left since 2003.</p> <p>It was Oct. 31, a Sunday, at the Syrian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad that the climate of fear was made horrifyingly real and where it became clear that Al Qaeda-inspired elements were going to go right to the third rail of the Western influence in the Middle East by targeting indigenous Christians — trying to break the 2,000-year continuum of a living Christian presence in Iraq.</p> <p>It was at the very end of an All Saints Day mass, when eight heavily armed men, purportedly inspired by Al Qaeda, invaded the church in the heart of Baghdad just as Wassim Sabih, the priest, was about to conclude the service with the words, “The Mass has ended, go in peace.”</p> <p>According to published reports based on eyewitness accounts, Sabih never got the words out as the militants opened fire. They pointed their weapons at him and silenced him as he began pleading for the release of his parishioners.</p> <p>They took the parishioners hostage and demanded the release of two Muslim women who were supposedly held by Egyptian Coptic Christians. Iraqi Security Forces responded and in the wild gun battle that ensued, grenades were thrown by the militants, and in the end of that Sunday’s mass, 57 people were dead, including two priests.</p> <p>A group calling itself The Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack. Believed to be an offshoot of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the group issued a bulletin, saying, “All Christian centers, organizations and institutions, leaders and followers are legitimate targets.” And that they will kill Christians “wherever they can reach them.”</p> <p>In the historical comparison of Selma, the Ku Klux Klan, which in this context would be Al Qaeda, has always been menacing, but now it is on the rise and openly attacking churches.</p> <p>It is attempting to stoke the emotional fury of a Christian West to defend the indigenous Christians, and draw it deeper into a fight, to draw us into an understanding that this is indeed a “clash of civilizations.”</p> <p>That is precisely how Al Qaeda sees this historical moment. And it is precisely why it’s wise for the United States and the West to avoid seeing it that way. Al Qaeda is a tiny criminal, terrorist organization with a warped, 12th-century ideology.</p> <p>It is not a civilization.</p> <p>Drew Christiansen, editor of "America," a national Catholic weekly magazine published by Jesuits, said that too often there is an overreaction or selective reaction to these attacks, and too little done by U.S. policymakers.</p> <p>“What is often unnoticed in the Middle East is the devastating effect of U.S. policy on Christians in the region,” he said. “U.S. policymakers have never taken the plight of Christians seriously, whether in Iraq or in Lebanon. There may be protests of specific violations, but not in those areas where the U.S. or Israelis have other strategic interests. For all the communication with U.S. government over the past 20 years, I have seen no serious action from any administration to improve protection for Christians. Religious freedom is basically a reporting matter and no more.”</p> <p>Predictably, there are often shrill responses to these kinds of attacks on churches, particularly from the Christian right and at times from right-wing Jewish groups that see peril in the whole message of Islam and are quick to see these attacks as evidence of that.</p> <p>Here’s an example. I recently sat with John Eibner, head of something called Christian Solidarity International, which is a Washington-based advocacy group focusing on the persecution of Christians around the world, said on the Christians in Iraq, "Only the U.S. can save them and if we don’t, the U.S. will be responsible for what amounts to genocide."</p> <p>"The human rights community doesn’t want to touch this because it is not politically correct," he said.</p> <p>There’s a kernal of truth in that and no reason to doubt Eibner is well intentioned, but overreacting to events in the Middle East can often conflate the problems and calling the violence and intimidation a "genocide" is ridiculous.</p> <p>Prince Turki Al Faisal, the longtime head of Saudi intelligence and the former ambassador to Washington, was in the United States in November and participated in an interfaith dialogue with Christian groups. In an interview with GlobalPost, he referred to the attacks in Iraq, saying, “It’s Al Qaeda being Al Qaeda. They are making a concerted strategy knowing it would cause a reaction and an overreaction in the West. They absolutely know what they are doing … We have to be careful not to let them succeed by overreacting.”</p> <p>The truth is just about everyone lives in fear in Iraq, and just about everyone has suffered violence. Many religious and ethnic groups have been targeted in much larger numbers in the violence and chaos that followed the 2003 invasion.</p> <p>Just two days after the church attack, a spate of bombs in Sunni and Shia neighborhoods killed 68 people and wounded hundreds. An article in Monday’s editions of<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/world/middleeast/13iraq.html?_r=1&ref=middleeast" class="external" target="_blank"> The New York Times</a> [2] provides an important piece of context to focus on: While Iraqi Christians represent only 3 percent of the population, they account for 20 percent of the Iraqis who have emigrated abroad.</p> <p>That’s largely because they have the connections to Western churches and family members who are already abroad in places like Detroit, Toronto, Los Angeles and elsewhere and therefore have a better chance of getting out.</p> <p>More than half of the Iraqi Christian community, estimated to be 800,000 prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, have left, according to the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute.</p> <p>But the threat to Christians and the violence they are suffering is just as bad as the threat to Shia or Sunni Muslims, who are also trying to be part of a new Iraq — one where violence is beginning to subside and where the governing crisis is finally settling down. Those Iraqis care about their Christian neighbors and friends and know the important role they play in Iraq moving forward. Those are the Iraqis who don’t want the Christians to flee.</p> <p>In 2006, I had a chance to actually ask Samuel Huntington about his 1996 book, "The Clash of Civilizations," and about whether it’s central premise might actually be self-fulfilling, particularly in the wake of Sept. 11. He often felt that his scholarship was taken out of context, he said, and he confided that he wished he had titled it differently, perhaps “Clashes of Civilizations” or something not to allow people to so easily misinterpret his work.</p> <p>Huntington passed away, but we have a chance to not allow people to misinterpret history or the events unfolding around us, and that’s how best to ponder the suffering of Christians — and everyone else — in Iraq.</p> <blockquote></blockquote> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/iraq/101213/iraq-christians-al-qaeda?page=0,0" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq | Christianity | Al Qaeda</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126104802/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-exodus/page/2/">« Previous Entries</a></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" 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