Convert
or Else...
This is the exact copy the letter and a rough translation
that has been sent to families throughout Iraq, including
the Assyrians, telling them if they do not convert
to Islam, they will be either raped, killed, kindapped,
or beaten. View
Arabic Version -
View English Version
Assyrian
Christians
Fear Backlash
The
Forgotten Christians With
Iraq taking center stage on the world scene, lost amidst
the fog of war are a small, once proud and once very influential
people. For some reason almost completely ignored in the
current discussions are 2.5 million Assyrian Christians.
Scattered throughout Iraq, but primarily near the city of
Nineveh, currently known as Mosul, these remnants of the
great Assyrian
Empire are frozen in time...
Persecuted
For Centuries, Iraq's Assyrian Christians Once Again
Wary of Their Future By
Rev. Ken Joseph, Jr.
Special to The Japan Times
LONDON -- Iraq's 2.5 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. Unlike the Kurds, the Assyrians are all
but ignored in discussions over Iraq's future. ...
Iraqi
Christians Shackled by Fear, Daring to Hope
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Pretty much everyone
lives in fear in Iraq. Christians are no exception. About
2.5 Million Christians live there among a mostly Muslim
population of 23 million. Many of those Christians are part
of an ancient empire whose people were the first, outside
the Jews, to be converted to Christ. ...
