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Based on media reports, I would have assumed that bombings killed more civilians in Iraq between 2003 and 2008 than any other cause. According to a study published earlier this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), however, that assumption would be wrong. Utilising the detailed database assembled by Iraq Body Count, a [...]
Two years ago tomorrow, Kurdish teenager Du’a Khalil Aswad was publicly stoned to death in an honour killing. She was of the Yazidi faith, and her “crime” was to fall in love and run away with a Muslim boy. Thousands reportedly participated in her murder in Bashiqa, northern Iraq. In her memory, the International Campaign [...]
Canon Andrew White, vicar of St. George’s, Baghdad, the only Anglican church in Iraq, says Iraqi Christians are still being killed and forced into exile. He does not condemn the invasion of Iraq and is glad Saddam was deposed, but the situation today is disastrous for non-Muslims. I look around our church and most of [...]
Dr Gilbert Burnham, lead researcher of the controversial study of “excess deaths” in Iraq attributable to the US-led invasion, has been censured by a prominent group of polling researchers. The American Association for Public Opinion Research rebuked Burnham for persistently refusing to disclose crucial information about the methods used in his study, which was published [...]
In one of the great tragedies of church history, one of the most ancient Christian communities is being destroyed before our very eyes. The Assyrian, Chaldean, and Orthodox churches of Mesopotamia appear headed for a bloody end. As recently as 1970, Christians made up 5-6 percent of Iraq’s population; today, they are less than 1 [...]
In a decision with far-reaching implications, a Swedish court has approved an application for asylum made by an Iraqi Christian family, despite an agreement signed by Sweden and Iraq designed to obviate such applications. In early 2008, Sweden and Iraq signed an agreement under which the Iraqi government pledged to protect religious minorities and returning [...]
A 17-year-old Iraqi girl who has been abused and exploited for much of her young life celebrated a very happy new year in Canada. From a report by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHRC), datelined 31 December: For any refugee, the chance to begin a new life in Canada is a coveted prize. But for [...]
Assyrian International News Agency reports on female genital mutilation (FGM) in Kurdistan. Sheelan Anwar Omer, a shy 7-year-old Kurdish girl, bounded into her neighbor’s house with an ear-to-ear smile, looking for the party her mother had promised. There was no celebration. Instead, a local woman quickly locked a rusty red door behind Sheelan, who looked [...]
A Church of England bishop has sharply criticised the United States and Great Britain over brutal persecution of Christians in Iraq. The Rt Rev Graham James says the two countries’ invasion of Iraq has contributed to the obliteration of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities. Despite having very strong Christian traditions, the US and [...]
The Journal of Peace Research has given its 2008 Article of the Year award to Neil F. Johnson, Michael Spagat, Sean Gourley, Jukka-Pekka Onnela & Gesine Reinert for “Bias in Epidemiological Studies of Conflict Mortality”. The article challenged the methodology utilised by Gilbert Burnham et al. in their study of deaths in Iraq, published in [...]
Sixteen-year-old Maria Asya Ahmed Mohammed (at right) has been released from prison after serving two years of a 3-1/2-year sentence for killing her uncle. She stabbed Sayeed Mohammed in self-defence in July 2006. The altercation followed years of family conflict over her father’s conversion to Christianity in 1998. Maria, her mother, and a brother were [...]
An editorial in St Louis Jewish Light points out that Christian leaders have been silent while Christians in India and Iraq are killed, dispossessed, and driven into refugee camps or exile. This stands in stark contrast to frequent public statements regarding certain other purported injustices elsewhere in the world. Even more perplexing is the seeming [...]
