LA FOI SOUS HAUTE SECURITE
Assassinats de prêtres, attentats contre des églises, pressions islamistes : ceux des chrétiens d'Irak qui n'ont pas choisi l'exil vivent dans le danger permanent.Dimanche 6 janvier, une vague d'attentats à…
COLÈRE DE L’EGYPTE APRÈS L’ADOPTION AU PARLEMENT EUROPÉEN D’UN TEXTE SUR LES DROITS DE L’HOMME
A quelques jours d'une rencontre bilatérale qui s'annonce désormais houleuse, les députés européens ont adopté, jeudi 17 janvier, un texte critiquant la situation des droits de l'homme en Egypte, malgré les…
IRAQ: USCIRF ALARMED BY SERIES OF BOMB ATTACKS AGAINST CHURCHES, MONASTERIES
WASHINGTON—The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is alarmed by the coordinated bomb attacks against churches and monasteries in Iraq last week. At least six people were reportedly wounded…
CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES BOMBED IN IRAQ
On Sunday 6th January 2008, the Epifany day, 7 churches and monasteries were bombed in Bagdad and Mossul in Iraq.3 of the attacks occured in Bagdad; the concerned chruches and…
TURKISH POLICE FOIL PLOT TO KILL PRIEST
Reuters - Monday, December 31, 2007; 4:51 AM ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police have foiled a plot to murder a priest, in a case that recalls other attacks this year…
EGYPTIAN PROSECUTOR RELEASES 7 MUSLIMS ARRESTED IN ATTACKS ON COPTIC CHRISTIAN PROPERTY
The Associated Press - Published: December 18, 2007 CAIRO, Egypt: Seven Muslims were ordered released Tuesday, two days after their arrest in attacks on shops owned by Coptic Christians in…
INTERNATIONAL GENOCIDE SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES ASSYRIAN, GREEK GENOCIDE
Issuing Organization: International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has voted overwhelmingly to recognize the genocides inflicted on Assyrian and Greek populations of the…
LES CHRÉTIENS D’ORIENT ET L’ISLAM RADICAL
par Henri Tincq - dans Le Monde, 8 décembre 2007. Les bulletins de santé alarmants, les listes de migrants n'en finissent pas de s'allonger. Dans l'avalanche de nouvelles venues d'Irak, du Liban,…
DIRE TIMES FOR IRAQ’S CHRISTIANS
(CBS) From the time of Jesus, there have been Christians in what is now Iraq. The Christian community took root there after the Apostle Thomas headed east. But now, after…
FATHER DANIEL (EDIP) SAVCI HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED IN TUR ABDIN – SOUTH-EAST TURKEY
Father Daniel (Edip) Savci, while driving back from Midyat to the village of Saleh (Bar tepe in Turkish), his vehicle was stopped and he was kidnapped by some unknown persons…