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has bombed two churches in Syria, the St. Odisho Assyrian Church in
Tel Tal and the St. Rita Tilel Armenian Church in Aleppo. The
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of the 35 Assyrian villages that was attacked by ISIS on February 23.
ISIS captured nearly 300 Assyrians in those attacks and subsequently
released 23, all from the village of Tel Goran. The remaining
Assyrians are still being held captive.</b></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A woman mourns with the framed picture of a man said to be among the 30 Ethiopian victims killed by members of the militant Islamic State in Libya, in the capital Addis Ababa, April 21, 2015. Ethiopia said on Monday that the 30 Christians shown being shot and beheaded in Libya on a video purportedly made by Islamic State were its citizens (REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri).</td></tr>
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-- After viewing the video that was released April 19, showing the
murder of two groups of Ethiopian Christians by Islamic State
terrorists, Jewish and Christian human rights groups have issued a
joint statement calling on President Obama to intervene with force to
stop the ongoing extermination of Christians in the Middle East.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>In
a gruesome repeat of the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in
February, masked IS militants marched 15 Ethiopian Christians along
Libya’s shore of the Mediterranean Sea and beheaded them. Another
group of 15 was shot in another murderous act in an area of Libyan
shrub land.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Open
Doors USA, a global advocacy group for the persecuted, was joined by
the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights
organization, in condemning the killings and calling for the United
States to intervene.</b></span></span></div>
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a joint statement, the groups claimed to have alerted Western
governments for months “that a religious genocide of Christians was
taking place” with little response, and took particular aim at
President Obama for his lack of action.</b></span></span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>While
we welcome the White House acknowledgment that these victims were
targeted because of their faith, much more needs to be done,” wrote
David Curry, president and CEO of Open Doors, Rabbi Abraham Cooper,
associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, along with colleague
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, who serves with him as director of
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>They
chided the president to fully acknowledge the “religious extremism”
and “theologically fueled hatred” that is at the heart of Islamic
State terrorism. Likewise, they called on him to lead NATO to “forge
an action plan” to protect Christians in the Middle East.</b></span></span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>We
must not stand idly by and watch as thousands of Christians are
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the Islamic persecution of Christians a type of “Nazi ideology”
that unabated “will continue to infect the hearts and minds of the
ever-growing number of youth around the world,” they said, “The
time to act is now.”</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>KOLKATA, India – A nun in her 70s was gang-raped by a group of bandits Saturday when she tried to prevent them from robbing a Christian missionary school in eastern India, police said, the latest crime to focus attention on the scourge of sexual violence in the country.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>The nun was hospitalized in serious condition after being attacked by seven or eight men at the Convent of Jesus and Mary School in Nadia district, 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of the West Bengal state capital of Kolkata, a police officer said.</b></span></span></div>
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-- The reports are horrifying, something out of a distant era of
ancient conquests: entire villages emptied, with hundreds taken
prisoner, others kept as slaves; the destruction of irreplaceable
works of art; a tax on religious minorities, payable in gold.</b></span></span></div>
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rampage reminiscent of Tamerlane or Genghis Khan, perhaps, but in
reality, according to reports by residents, activist groups and the
assailants themselves, a description of the modus operandi of the
Islamic State's self-declared Islamic caliphate this week as it
prosecuted a relentless campaign in Iraq and Syria against what have
historically been religiously and ethnically diverse areas with
traces of civilizations dating to ancient Mesopotamia.</b></span></span></div>
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latest to face the militants' onslaught are the Assyrian Christians
of northeastern Syria, one of the world's oldest Christian
communities, some speaking a modern version of Aramaic, the language
of Jesus.</b></span></span></div>
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leaders have counted 287 people taken captive, including 30 children
and several dozen women, along with civilian men and fighters from
Christian militias, said Dawoud Dawoud, an Assyrian political
activist who had just toured the area, in the vicinity of the Syrian
city of Qamishli. Thirty villages had been emptied, he said.</b></span></span></div>
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Syriac Military Council, a local Assyrian militia, put the number of
those taken at 350.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Reached
in Qamishli, Adul Ahad Nissan, 48, an accountant and music composer
who fled his village before the brunt of the fighting, said a close
friend and his wife had been captured.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>"I
used to call them every other day. Now their mobile is off," he
said. "I tried and tried. It's so painful not to see your
friends again."</b></span></span></div>
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following excerpts are from </span><a href="http://aina.org/"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>AINA.org</b></span></a><span style="font-size: 13pt;">:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Still
reeling from last week's news of the Islamist beheading of 21 Coptic
Christian migrant workers in Libya, Middle Eastern Christians were
again targeted by a large scale Islamist terror attack with thousands
of victims Monday, in Syria. Islamic State jihadists laid siege to a
string of Christian Assyrian villages, along the Khabour river, in
northeastern Syria, kidnapping or killing scores of residents. Those
abducted are now in imminent peril and thousands more who were
expelled have joined the ranks of mendicant displaced.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Piece
by piece, Middle Eastern Christianity is being shattered.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>What
this means for the Islamist militants are gains in strategic ground
and further headway in the goal of religious cleansing. In other
words, the Islamic State also known as ISIS is still winning --
militarily and politically. And despite upbeat statements about our
counter-terrorism strategy by new Defense Secretary Ashton Carter,
and last week's Counter Violent Extremism conference at the State
Department, our side -- those who oppose this barbarism -- finds
itself still back on its heels.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Archimandrite
Emanuel Youkhana of the Assyrian Church of the East emailed that
sources in the city of Hassakah, reported that some 3,000 of the
villagers managed to flee, either to that city or to Qamishly, where
they are being sheltered in churches. According to his source, who
requested anonymity, the captives included "50 families in Tel
Shamiran, 26 families in Tel Gouran, 28 families in Tel Jezira, and
14 young people (12 males and 2 females) who were defending Tel
Hormiz." Milad, a 17-year-old man, was "martyred."</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Since
a family averages five people, this translates to over 120 Christians
captured by ISIS. The Islamist militants reportedly separated the
captives, men from women and children -- a pattern also seen when
ISIS attacked Iraq's Yizidi community on Sinjar mountain last August.
The Syrian Christians' fate is unknown but could include murder,
enslavement, rape or traded as a hostage. Churches in the seized
villages could be seen ablaze from the opposite river bank.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Syrian-Catholic
Archbishop of Hassakah-Nisibi, Jacques Behnan Hindo, told the Vatican
press Fides that the Christians feel like they are "abandoned
into the hands" of ISIS.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>The
Archbishop explained:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>"<i>Yesterday
American bombers flew over the area several times, but without taking
action. We have a hundred Assyrian families who have taken refuge in
Hassakah, but they have received no assistance either from the Red
Crescent or from Syrian government aid workers, perhaps because they
are Christians. The UN High Commission for Refugees is nowhere to be
seen.</i>"</b></span></span></div>
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following excerpts are from </span><a href="http://aina.org/"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><i><b>AINA.org</b></i></span></a><span style="font-size: 13pt;">:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Iranian
security agents arrested an Assyrian pastor and two Christian
converts who were his guests at his Tehran residence on December 26,
2014, according to Mansour Borji, Spokesperson for the Alliance of
Iranian Churches.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Borji
told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the
full reasons for the arrest of Pastor Victor Beth Tarmez, a former
leader of the Tehran Pentecostal Assyrian Church, and his guests
remain unknown, but that at the time of the raid on his home, agents
stated that they were arresting the individuals because they
"participated in an illegal gathering." The "illegal
gathering" was a Christmas party Tarmez was holding at his home
and his guests were Zoroastrian, Muslim, and Christian citizens.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>"There
was a Christmas party at Pastor Victor's home. He and his wife and
son and 14 guests were there. When agents entered the home, first
they searched all the personal belongings of the guests, then they
videotaped their faces, and then they searched the premises.
Eventually, they arrested Pastor Tarmez along with two Christian
converts and confiscated some property from the home," Borji
told the Campaign.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>"During
a short phone call to his family on December 29, Pastor Victor
informed them that he is held at Evin Prison. We have no information
about the status of the two Christian converts arrested on the same
day. All we know is that they have not been released yet," added
Mansour Borji.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>(AFP)
-- Threats by jihadists have sent a fresh wave of Christians fleeing
their Iraqi homeland, bustling from exodus to exodus in search of a
safe haven to rebuild their lives.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Raja
Marzina, who has taken refuge in Jordan with her husband and their
five children, never imagined she would one day have to leave Iraq
for good.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>"But
we had no choice; we had to flee to save our lives and our religion,"
she said.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Like
dozens of others who fled the orgy of violence unleashed by Islamic
State (IS) jihadists this summer, Marzina goes to the Syriac
Catholics Virgin Mary church in Amman for prayers and to discuss the
latest events back home.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>IS
militants between June and August seized Mosul, Iraq's second city
that was home to a sizeable Christian community, and Qaraqosh, the
country's largest Christian town.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Jordan
is the transit point for Iraqis waiting to emigrate to North America
or Europe, after a stopover in the autonomous Kurdish region in
northern Iraq.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>"Around
70 percent of the Christians of Iraq have left their country over the
past 20 years because of its successive wars and conflicts,"
said Wael Suleiman, the Jordan director of the Catholic relief
organisation Caritas.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>It
was estimated their were one million Iraqi Christians before the wave
of emigration began, with Baghdad once home to 600,000 of them.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>The
number of Christians in Iraq has been declining ever since the 2003
US-led invasion and the insurgencies that followed.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Isis's
persecution of Iraqi Christians, which has already forced tens of
thousands of men, women and children to flee for their lives, is fast
becoming a genocide, religious leaders have warned.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Archbishop
Athanasius Toma Dawod of the Syriac Orthodox church said that Isis's
capture of Qaraqosh, Iraq's largest Christian city, had marked a
turning point for Christians in the country.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>"Now
we consider it genocide -- ethnic cleansing," he said. "They
are killing our people in the name of Allah and telling people that
anyone who kills a Christian will go straight to heaven: that is
their message. They have burned churches; they have burned very old
books. They have damaged our crosses and statues of the Virgin Mary.
They are occupying our churches and converting them into mosques."</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>The
archbishop, who leads the Syriac Orthodox church in the UK, urged the
UK government to open the country's doors to those fleeing the
violence. "We are dying, 100%," he said. "The British
government needs to help people and to give them asylum. If they stay
here, they will be killed."</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>His
pleas were echoed by Patriarch Louis Sako, the Iraq-based leader of
the Chaldean Catholic church, who said that about 100,000 Christians
had abandoned their villages in the Nineveh plains earlier this week
after Isis launched mortar attacks. He asked the EU and the UN to
help them before it was too late.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Tripoli
(AsiaNews/CBCP) - The Catholic Church in Libya "is doing
everything possible" to help Filipino workers return home safe
and sound, said Fr Amado Baranquel, parish priest at Tripoli's Mary
Immaculate Church. Hence, the Filipino government should "rescue
them via the sea" since armed clashes between Libyan government
forces and the rebel groups have made land travel "too unsafe".</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>About
13,000 Filipinos live in Libya. Although they are welcome in the
country, they have also been affected by the Islamist advance. A
50-year-old man who worked for a construction company was kidnapped
and beheaded in Benghazi on 23 July because he was not Muslim.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>"Violence
and rapes against foreigners are happening every day," Fr
Baranquel explained.In fact, two orders of nuns have repatriated
their members to Italy, he said. "It is too risky for them to
stay here."</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Across
the ancient cities and villages of Iraq, an "N" word also
is used out of hate.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Members
of the extremist group known as ISIS spray paint the letter "N"
in blazing red on the homes of those they deem different. Scrawled in
Arabic and pronounced "noon," the N stands for Nazarene, or
follower of Christ, and to an outsider, it may look like a happy
face.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>But
ISIS uses it as a mark of death. It warns Christian families who live
in those homes to convert to Islam, pay a hefty tax, or prepare to
die.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>"There
is a Christian genocide happening in Northern Iraq and no one is
doing anything about it" said Delilah George, a 31-year-old
Assyrian woman and Valley Village resident. "My people are
experiencing unspeakable horror and grief at the hands of these
radicals."</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Since
the takeover in June of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIS has targeted the
Christian population, whose faith has been present for almost 2,000
years. In the last two weeks, Assyrians were forced to leave their
ancestral homeland under the threat of death. Many have been beaten,
robbed and brutalized, or killed along the way as they search for a
safe haven.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>The
sadness, frustration with the lack of public awareness and even anger
has prompted George and countless Assyrians to hold a rally Saturday
at the Federal Building in Los Angeles. Dubbed "Demand for
Action," the Los Angeles event is one of nearly 40 worldwide to
be held also on Saturday across the United States, Europe, the Middle
East and Australia.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>At
least five people were killed and eight others injured in a bomb
attack on a Catholic church in Nigeria's northern city of Kano on
Sunday. The bombing was blamed on the Islamist terror group Boko
Haram.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>The
Saint Charles Catholic church, which is situated in Kano's Sabon Gari
(foreign quarter) area, a mainly Christian area, was attacked shortly
after the end of Sunday mass, police spokesman Frank Mba told Agence
France Presse.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>"We
suspect an IED (improvised explosive device) that was thrown from
across the road," the spokesman said.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>In
a separate incident in Kano city on Sunday, police prevented a woman
from carrying out an attack outside a university, following which she
blew herself up. Five police officials were injured while isolating
her.</b></span></span></div>
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the two incidents on Sunday, Kano's emir cancelled the celebration of
the Eid festival, which marks the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan.</b></span></span></div>
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following excerpts are from <a href="http://www.asianews.it/en.html"><i><b>AsiaNews.it</b></i></a>:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Manila
(AsiaNews/CBCP) - As Libya's political crisis plunges the country
into ever greater chaos, a Filipino priest in Tripoli urges his
government to ensure the safety of some 13,000 Filipinos trapped in
the country.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Fr
Amado Baranquel, pastor of the Church of Mary Immaculate in the
Libyan capital, issued his appeal after radical Islamists killed a
Filipino in Benghazi "for not being a Muslim."</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>The
victim was a 50-year-old construction worker who was abducted and
killed on Wednesday.</b></span></span></div>
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has caused panic among Filipinos in Libya who are unable to leave
because ports and airports have been destroyed.</b></span></span></div>
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following excerpts are from <a href="http://aina.org/"><i><b>Aina.org</b></i></a>:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>When
U.S. troops invaded Iraq in 2003, there were at least 1.5 million
Christians in Iraq. Over the last ten years, significantly in the
last few months with the emergence of ISIS, that figure has dropped
to about 400,000.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>In
a region where Christians predate Muslims by centuries, over one
million Christians have been killed or have had to flee because of
jihadi persecution, while America is basically standing by and
watching.</b></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Chaldean Archbishops of Erbil and Kirkuk, Bashar Warda and Yousif Mirkis (photo: Aid to the Church in Need).</i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Two
Iraqi archbishops are seeking "faith and hope" in Iraq,
while bewailing the continuing exodus of Christians from the country
amid continued violence.</b></span></span></div>
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Yousif Mirkis heads the Chaldean Archdiocese of Kirkuk, in Iraq's
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said that he "quite definitely" fears the end of
Christianity in Iraq.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>"We
are in the process of disappearing, just as the Christians in Turkey,
Saudi Arabia and North Africa have disappeared. And even in Lebanon
they now constitute only a minority," he told the international
Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need July 8.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>Archbishop
Mirkis said he is not resigned to defeat, but "trying to be
realistic."</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>"There
is still the hope that faith brings," he said. While he himself
will not leave Iraq, he said he understands why young Christians are
leaving in the wake of so many violent deaths.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: APHont, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>"In
the past ten years we have lost a bishop and six priests. In addition
there are about a thousand of the faithful who have died in attacks."</b></span></span></div>
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<li><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Ortega, a leader of the Marxist Sandinistas who overthrew the authoritarian regime of Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ruled Nicaragua from the 1979 Sandinista takeover until his loss in the 1990 presidential election. Ortega won the presidential elections of 2006 and 2011.</b></li>
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<li><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;">To the awe of its readership, a recent Daily Mail article reports that the “jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant [ISIL],” which is currently entrenched in Raqqa, Syria, “publicly crucified two Syrian rebels in northeastern Syria in revenge for a grenade attack on members of their group.”</b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;">While the Daily Mail is to be commended for exposing these barbaric acts—along with posting photos of the crucified—it nonetheless minimized their significance, in two important ways: 1) by repeatedly saying things like “even al-Qaeda is distancing itself from ISIL,” and so implying that the act of crucifixion is some wild aberration that even the poster-child of jihadi terror, al-Qaeda, wants nothing to do with it; and 2) ignoring the much “sexier” story that Christians in Syria are also being crucified simply for refusing to embrace Islam (as opposed to the rather mundane but politically more correct story of Islamic jihadis crucifying each other in the context of vendetta killings).</b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Consider the atrocities earlier committed in Ma'loula, Syria, an ancient Christian village where the inhabitants still spoke Aramaic, the language of Christ.</b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;">According to recent Arabic news media, "a Syrian nun testified to the Vatican news agency that some Christians in Ma'loula were crucified for refusing to convert to Islam or pay jizya" (tribute subjugated Christians are required to pay to their Islamic conquerors in order to exist as Christians, per Koran 9:29).</b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Incidentally, they were crucified by the al-Qaeda linked Nasra Front (so much for Daily Mail's portrayal of al-Qaeda "distancing" itself from the apparently "extra-extremist" ISIL for crucifying its victims).</b></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">A Florida school teacher humiliated a 12-year-old boy in front of an entire class after she caught him reading the Bible during free reading time.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">The teacher, at Park Lakes Elementary School in Fort Lauderdale, ordered Giovanni Rubeo to pick up the telephone on her desk and call his parents. </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">As the other students watched, the teacher <a href="http://www.libertyinstitute.org/file/Mrs-Thomas---Voice-Messagev2.mp3" target="_blank">left a terse message on the family’s answering machine here</a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">“I noticed that he has a book – a religious book – in the classroom,” she said on the recording. “He’s not permitted to read those books in my classroom.”</span></li>
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<li><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Sectarian clashes between Muslims and Chrstians have broken out in towns around Assiut, a city of 400,000 in central Egypt.</b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;">A Muslim driver destroyed the front of a store owned by a Coptic Christian in Paisari, according to the Egyptian news site Copts United. During a reconciliation meeting between the Christian and Muslim communities, violence broke out, leaving 10 injured.</b></li>
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<li><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;">“Democracy and change come through upbringing and education rather than through conflict,” said Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako, who has governed the Eastern Catholic church since February 2013. “Intervention by the West in the region did not solve the problems … but on the contrary, produced more chaos and conflict.”</b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Referring to the regime of Saddam Hussein, he said that “in the Church of the Ascension, Al-Mashtal, for example, there were about 5,000 families and over 240 students preparing for their First Holy Communion before the regime’s fall.” On “25 April 2014, I celebrated in this church the Holy Mass for First Holy Communion of 13 students only.”</b></li>
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<li><b style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Some news agencies reported that the Somali Islamist terrorist organization Al-Shabaab is suspected in the attack. The local Catholic bishop offered his own hypothesis.</b></li>
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<li><b style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">In the West Java region of Indonesia, Islamic militants have pressured a court to revoke the building permit for a Catholic church, the AsiaNews service reports.</b></li>
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<li><b style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">The condemned have received this sentence, in reality, for nothing more than having come into contact with South Korean missionary Kim Jung-wook and receiving money to fund underground Christian churches.....</b></li>
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<li><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">An Ontario Catholic school board sponsored a lecture last week focused on how Catholic schools can “value … faithful dissent” as a way of opposing Catholic teaching on “ordination, homosexuality, and contraception.”</b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">The Waterloo Catholic District School Board sponsored Graham McDonough, PhD, to speak at St. Jerome’s University (SJU) Friday night as part of the University’s lecture series on “Catholic Experience.”</b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">“Catholic schools often find themselves dealing with disagreements with Church teaching on topics such as ordination, homosexuality, and contraception as well as with complaints that schools are not properly teaching doctrine,” reads a description of the lecture, titled “Faithful Disagreement: an opportunity for rediscovery in Catholic education.”</b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"This lecture proposes that Catholic schools can do more to include and nurture internal disagreement as a powerful opportunity to embrace intellectual diversity, learn the value of faithful dissent and enable greater participation in the Church and the world.”</b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Catholics called it “diabolical” to have a Catholic school board sponsor a lecture on dissent.</b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">“This is all a charade,” he said. “The description of the lecture seems to call for outright revolt against teachings that constitute unchangeable Catholic doctrine.”</b></li>
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