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Iraq's embattled Christians. (Insider Report).(welfare of Iraq's Assyrian Christians in jeopardy due to Muslim Kurds)
Determined to create a scripturally accurate depiction of the betrayal, passion, and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Academy Award-winning actor/director Mel Gibson commissioned a script written entirely in New Testament Latin and Aramaic. While Latin has undergone dramatic alterations since the time of Jesus, Aramaic is almost entirely extinct -- except for a small community of Christian believers trapped between Saddam Hussein's vicious regime and the aggressive designs of the UN-led "world community."
"Iraq's 1.2 million Assyrian Christians -- remnants of the Assyrian empire and the only people who still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ -- are once again the victims of circumstances beyond their control," reported the February 27th Japan Times. "Unlike the Kurds, the Assyrians are all but ignored in discussions over Iraq's future."
Dominated at various times by the Persians, Mongols, Turks, Kurds, and Arabs, the Assyrian Christians (also known as the Chaldeans) "are in an extremely precarious situation," continues the report. "Unlike the Kurds of northern Iraq, who receive UN aid, and unlike the Turkoman minority, who are supported by Turkey, the Assyrians have received no outside support."
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...say many of Iraq's more than 1 million Assyrian Christians may be forced...Refugees, Assyrian Christians, who made up 5 percent of Iraq's total...owned by some Assyrian Christians and denying...according to the Iraq Sustainable...
- Iraqi Assyrian Christians in London.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Middle Eastern Studies SHANKLAND, DAVID April 1, 2000 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) January 29, 2005 700+ words
...government to make sure that Iraq's Assyrians are protected...second wave after the Iran/Iraq war in the 1980s. While...done delicately, though. Assyrian Christians have already been targeted by insurgents in Iraq: two churches were blown...
- ADVISORY/Bay Area Assyrians Hold a Demonstration Call for True Democracy in...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 13, 2003 700+ words
...oppression and unfair representation of the Assyrian Christians in Iraq. The Assyrian Christians are the native citizens of Iraq and represent...Americans concerned about the future of Assyrian Christians in Iraq and in the Middle East to join us in...
- REMINDER/Bay Area Assyrians Hold a Demonstration Call for True Democracy in...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 16, 2003 700+ words
...oppression and unfair representation of the Assyrian Christians in Iraq. The Assyrian Christians are the native citizens of Iraq and represent...Americans concerned about the future of Assyrian Christians in Iraq and in the Middle East to join us in...
- Suburban residents with family still in Iraq face different fears.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Cliatt, Cass March 31, 2003 700+ words
...Saddam Hussein has over Iraq grips her, even here...Northwest suburbs, away from Iraq's borders. They harbor...is one of about 80,000 Assyrian Christians in the Chicago area, a large majority of whom fled Iraq because of political persecution...
- Commentary: Iraq must be secular.
- News wire article from: United Press International October 9, 2003 700+ words
...I am with the Assyrian Christians -- as you know...indigenous people of Iraq. We have a very...requiring that the Iraq constitution be...constitution the Assyrian Christians do not have a future in Iraq. We will do all...
- ASSYRIANS IN IRAQ HOPE FOR AUTONOMOUS REGION
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News September 21, 2009 700+ words
...of U.S. forces from Iraq's urban centers, the...For almost six years, Iraq's Chaldo-Assyrian Christians have been caught in the...flatly, "We must help the Assyrian Christians to stay in Iraq and not leave. The Assyrian...
