Indigenous Christians Seeking Autonomous RegionOctober 25, 2004 — (ANS) - Following a series of Church Bombings and the bombing of the Assyrian Christian Center in downtown Baghdad , estimates of up to 40,000 for a year total of...
Islamic Extremists Target WomenOctober 24, 2004 — (AsiaNews) - Islamic fundamentalist groups in the Iraqi city of Mosul have threatened violence against Christians, and particularly Christian women, the AsiaNews service reports. A flyer circulating in Mosul at...
Christians Want to Stay in Iraq, Nuncio SaysOctober 19, 2004 — (AsiaNews) Saturdays attack against churches was more than a warning against the Christian community, a community whose situation, despite claims to the contrary, was already precarious under the previous...
Women Fleeing College Under Islamist ThreatsOctober 18, 2004 — (The Washington Times) - Islamist extremists are targeting the city's universities by threatening and even attacking female students who wear Western-style fashions, setting off bombs on campuses and demanding that...
Insurgents Target ChurchesOctober 16, 2004 — (Reuters) - Explosions damaged churches in Baghdad on Saturday and the U.S. military reported the deaths of four more American troops in bomb attacks elsewhere in Iraq. A suicide car...
Number of Murdered Iraqi Christians on the RiseOctober 12, 2004 — (Independent UK) - Seven Christians, were killed almost instantly, when their vehicle was sprayed with gunfire. Two others were injured but survived. The dead were all breadwinners for their families...
Christians Fleeing to Jordan, SyriaOctober 7, 2004 — (Compass) - Written threats, kidnappings, bombings and murder by Muslim extremists are driving thousands of Iraq s minority Christian population out of their ancestral homeland, fleeing for safety to neighboring...
ICC Urges Pope to Confront President MusharrafSeptember 28, 2004 — International Christian Concern 2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW #941 u Washington DC 20006-1846 www.www.persecution.org / Email: icc@www.persecution.org For Immediate Release International Christian Concern Urges Pope to Confront Pakistani President Musharraf on...
Christians Determined Not to be Driven Away by AttacksSeptember 14, 2004 — (KRT) - Gewargis Radif is adamant that he won't be defeated by insurgents targeting Christians in Iraq . So on Monday - Holy Cross Day for his Assyrian Orthodox sect...
Forty Thousand Christians Flee and the Pope Offers HelpAugust 18, 2004 — (ANS) - Tens of thousands of Christians have fled Iraq where fierce battles raged Tuesday August 17, between American forces and the Mahdi Army militia of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr,...
Assyrian Compound Attacked in BaghdadAugust 10, 2004 — (ANS) - The Assyrian Christian Compound in Baghdad came under mortar attack Monday, August 9, just over a week after bombers killed up to 15 Christians, news reports and church...
Secret Documents Reveal Ethnic Cleansing of ChristiansAugust 5, 2004 — (ANS) - Secret documents show Saddam Hussein's regime and local Kurdish leaders were involved in the "ethnic cleansing", "gassing" and "Islamization" of Assyrian Christians in Northern Iraq , with international...
Condemnation of Iraq Church BombingsAugust 2, 2004 — International Christian Concern 2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW #941 Washington DC 20006-1846 Email: icc@www.persecution.org www.www.persecution.org For Immediate ReleaseYou are free to disseminate the following news. We request that you reference ICC...
Christian and Muslim Leaders Condemn Iraq Church BombsAugust 2, 2004 — (BBC) - Pope John Paul II said he deplored the "unjust aggressions" and declared solidarity with Iraqi Catholics. Iraq 's top Shia Muslim leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, said the...
Car Bombs Target ChurchesAugust 1, 2004 — (CNN.com) - Ten people were killed and more than 40 wounded in the attacks in Baghdad , according to the U.S. military. Iraqi police put the number of wounded at...
