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Christmas in Iraq

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq - Iraqis attend Christmas Mass at a church in Baghdad on Saturday. Most Masses on Christmas Day were canceled, replaced by brief early morning prayers.


Security concerns kept many Iraqi Christians away from church Christmas Day, while U.S. troops in Baghdad celebrated the holiday as traditionally as possible, feasting on turkey and then relaxing at the pool table or computer screen.

At one Baghdad church, worshippers walked past armed security guards to attend their Christmas Day Mass.

Once inside, the small congregation at the Syrian Catholic Church lit candles, took part in holy communion and prayed for peace in their troubled homeland. Iraqi children in the church paid their respect to a nativity scene by kissing it.

Many Iraqi Christians, however, chose to stay home for the holiday.

Weariness surrounds holiday Christians, mostly from the early Assyrian and Chaldean churches, have been on edge since August, when four churches in Baghdad and one in Mosul were blown up in a coordinated series of car
bombings. Many feared their houses of worship would be targets on Christmas.

 

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Christmas services canceled by fearful Iraqi Christians Dec. 20, 04

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AINA: Appeal for a ChaldoAssyrian Safe Haven in Northern Iraq  Nov. 30, 04

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Appeal for a ChaldoAssyrian Safe Haven in Iraq  Nov. 24, 04

Interview with Archbischop of Kerkuk - Louis Sakko Nov. 24, 04

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Iraqi Christians seek U.S. support  Nov. 23, 04

A Conference for the Defense of Human rights for Minorities in Iraq  Nov. 18, 04

U.S. Must Protect Iraq's Christians  Nov. 16, 04

The Coming Elections in Iraq and the Expatritots  Nov. 15,04

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Northern Iraq's Mosul Tense After U.S. Air Strikes Nov. 12, 04

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Companions in suffering: An Interview with Thea Halo Nov. 6, 02

Iraqi Christians Face Escalating violence: Urgent Appeal For Help  Nov. 4, 04

Update of Opression and Murder of the Assyrians in Iraq Nov. 4, 04

Two Assyrians Killed in Syria  NOv. 3, 04

Assyrian Family Attacked in Baghdad, Two Killed  NOv. 2, 04

Restoring Sanity to Iraq  Oct. 25, 04

Apeal for an Administration region for the Christians of Iraq  Oct. 24, 04

Kurd's Confiscation of Assyrian Villages  Oct. 25, 04

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Attacks against Women  Oct. 24, 2004

Christian Students stage Nonviolent Protest in Iraq Oct. 22, o4

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Iraq church bombings leave empty pews Oct., 17, 04

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Middle Eastern Christians Conference  Oct. 02, 04

Up Dated List of Assyrians Murdered  Oct. 05, 04

Reasons for the Exodus sep. 30, 04

Christian Exodus from Iraq  sep. 28, 04

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Nine Christians Killed in Baghdad  Sep.27, 04

Christians Fleeing to Syria   Sep.27, 04

Recent history of the Assyrians of Iraq  by Jonathan Eric Lewis

Iraq's persecuted Christians  Sep. 20, 04

The Looming Danger in Kirkuk  Sep. 17, 04

Kurds pour into Kirkuk sep., 15, 04

Two Assyrians beheaded in Baghdad  Sep. 15, 04

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Adventist Church Attacked in Baghdad  Sep. 11, 04     

The Fate of Iraq's Christians    sep., 10, 04

Kurds Human Chess Game

Iraqi Christians seek sanctuary in ancient homeland   

Blast Hits Churches Across Iraq, 11 dead    Aug., 1, 04

Contributions to the Arab civilization

Children Murdered

Sisters Killed

Restoring the Past

The Last Assyrian

Languages provide a religious connection

Syriac Documents 

Uprooting of the Assyrians

No financial aid to the Christians.  

Christians leaving Iraq

British Parliament Debates the Assyrians of Iraq

Children kidnapped

Assyrians Fearing Persecution.

Kurds efforts to marginallize the Assyrians

Caught Between the Islamists and the Evangelists

Christians Asking for Protection

Iraqi Christians flee to Syria

Terrorists Blame the Crusaders

Iraq's Church Bombers vs. Prophet Muhammad

Faith Under Fire

Iraq's Disappearing Christians

Iraq Urges the Christians to Return Form Exile

Future of Iraq's Christians