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The "Ninevah Plan" is a schema to purportedly protect some Christian populations in Iraq – specifically, this: The Plains of Nineveh contain a series of Christian villages (approximately twenty), in which most people speak the Syriac dialect known as “Sureth.”  The area has always been under the jurisdiction of Mosul – about 30-25 km away…

Of anti-Christian violence in Iraq? The mainstream media can’t get enough of the sectarian violence between the Shiites, the Sunnis, and the Kurds in Iraq. But one kind of sectarian violence that has consistently been under-reported since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 is the persecution of Iraq’s native Christian population. A Catholic News…

Just spent 30 minutes on a post. Browser froze. Post gone. I’ll start over…gradually. Rod Dreher and Terry Mattingly are both in Istanbul for a conference, and reporting on various religious and cultural issues. Red Terror on the Amber Coast – a trailer for a Dominican-produced documentary on the Soviet occupation of Lithuania Pontifications is…

A Chaldean priest seems to have been kidnapped in Baghdad: Another Chaldean priest was abducted in Baghdad today. Fr Hani Abdel Ahad, in his early 30s, was taken in a north-eastern section of the capital called Suleikh along with five boys who were going with him to visit the city’s minor seminary. The incident has…
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