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    Besimtaret e krishtere ne Irak tronditen nga shperthime

    By Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor

    The acrid scent of explosives and fire hovered inside the gutted church as Iraqi Christians baptized Savio Mar Georgis.


    Still, it was a moment of rebirth Sunday for the Roman Catholic church that was attacked with explosives on Saturday. Five Baghdad churches were damaged in pre-dawn attacks. There were no injuries.


    Despite the damage, water was poured from a tin kettle into a large plastic bowl to create a makeshift baptismal font for a month-old boy. Gentle clapping turned into a full-throated cheer as the significance of the event sank in.


    "I am very happy today," said Nabil Jamil, the church caretaker and the father of baby Savio. Jamil helped his wife and three other children escape the flames. "This fire and this bombing is death," he said. "But this baptism is new life for this church, for Christians, Muslims, and everyone in Iraq (news - web sites)."


    Before Communion - the chalice and bowl were blessed on a blackened altar - the Rev. Mansur al-Mokalisy told 40 or so faithful, some in tears, not to be shaken by the latest violence aimed at Iraq's tiny and shrinking Christian minority.


    "We should be strong in our hearts and work together, united," the priest said. "Thanks to our Muslim neighbors, who helped us. Let God protect our country, and let peace live in our hearts."


    That is a tough message for people to accept in Iraq, where every religious and ethnic group that makes up Iraq's complex mosaic has been targeted by suicide bombs, assassinations and kidnappings.


    The Baghdad church attacks reminded Christians, who represent 3% of Iraq's estimated 25 million people, of their increasing vulnerability. "They want to spark a religious conflict between Christians and Muslims, and target Christians so they will leave Iraq," said Wisam Ayoubi, a Syrian Christian professor, as he stood amid the cinders of a church on Saturday. "You can't feel free. And it's not just Christians. A lot of people are not attending classes."


    Ayoubi, who graduated from New York University in the early 1980s, added: "I don't feel safe in church. Before, I used to go every Sunday. Now I don't. I have two kids, and don't want them to be hurt."


    He noted the only bright side of the attacks: They were conducted early Saturday, when the churches were empty. "Everywhere there was screaming (after the blast). We went to the roof, saw the flame, and I could feel the heat from the fire on my face. Imagine if this blast happened during Mass."


    Christians weren't so lucky on Aug. 1 when a string of attacks hit churches during services. At least 12 people were killed and 61 were injured. It was the first significant strike against Iraqi Christians since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Since then, Christian shopkeepers selling alcohol also have been targeted.


    The tiny community is shrinking further as Christians flee the violence. Pascale Isho Warda, a Christian who is the interim government's minister for displacement and migration, estimated as many as 15,000 Christians have left the country since August, when four churches in Baghdad and one in Mosul were blown up in a coordinated series of car bombings.


    "People are frightened. We are an easy target," said the Rev. Yousif Thomas Mirkis, a priest and theology professor. "I compare our community to pigeons. You do that (he claps) and they all fly."


    Mirkis said he has been advising people to stay in Iraq. One reason, he said, is that by his count the community accounts for 20% of Iraq's doctors and an even larger percentage of professions like engineers and professors. "We don't want our people to leave," he said. "If I leave, it will not solve the problem. What about the Muslims? They are not our enemies."


    No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, which were condemned by the Association of Muslim Scholars, a Sunni clerical group believed to have ties to insurgents. "Islam doesn't support the ongoing terrorism," Sheik Abdul-Sattar Abdul-Jabbar of the association said.


    The Rev. Raphael Qutaimi, acting bishop of the Syrian Catholic Church, agreed that Christians should remain, but he expects many will leave. Saturday's "explosions will no doubt push people to immigrate," he said. "But this country has been ours for thousands of years. Our ancestors shed blood defending it. We mustn't leave it."


    At the Roman Catholic church, caretaker Jamil had received warning of a threat from U.S. troops less than 12 hours before the blast. That convinced several in the area that the U.S. was responsible. "I think the Americans made this operation (to attack churches)," said Nadwa George, a Christian neighbor. "It could not be an Iraqi. Never, never."





    Others believe that they are being persecuted because America is viewed as a Christian country. "Under the previous regime, we were protected, really. Now with the U.S., we are not," said Audet Abdal, who lives next door. "We can't go outside wearing any cross anymore," she said. "Since the U.S. came, (insurgents) think they are punishing America (by hitting Christians), because Americans are Christians."

    Surah Samaan, a 25-year-old lab technician, said Christians are vulnerable in predominantly Muslim Iraq. "There's nobody to help us. Muslims have the support of their tribe. The pope is our only power but doesn't help us," she said.

    She said she would like to leave Iraq for good. Where would she like to go? "Anywhere - out of the Arab world - where they all think we are infidels," she said.

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    Ngjarjet ne Irak po marrin permasa te reja si dhe me sa duket po i jepet edhe karakteri fetar.

    A eshte kjo dicka rreale apo dicka qe po perpiqet qe te duket rreale?

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    Morra vesh per shembjen e 5 kishave ne Irak.
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    Violence mars start of Ramadan in Iraq
    Demands a hurdle in Falluja peace talks
    Saturday, October 16, 2004 Posted: 4:17 PM EDT (2017 GMT)



    Iraqi priests survey the damage to one of five churches damaged in bomb attacks Saturday.

    BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Blasts rocked five Christian churches in four Baghdad neighborhoods early Saturday -- as a string of violent incidents marred the start of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.

    Homemade bombs detonated at the churches in a series of explosions from 4:20 a.m. to 6 a.m. local time, causing damage but no casualties.

    A CNN crew was at the scene of one of the bombings -- St. George's Church -- where they saw extensive damage. Soldiers believe 60 pounds of bomb-making material were used in that attack.

    St. Jacob's Church, St. Joseph Church, St. Thomas Church, and the Church of Rome were also struck.

    Although most Iraqis in the country of 26 million are Muslims, Christians have maintained a strong, historic presence -- numbering roughly 700,000.

    They are linked by some Muslim militants to the coalition because some work in Iraqi government ministries or groups set up by coalition authorities.

    Christians are usually the merchants who sell liquor -- seen as a transgression by hard-line Muslims.

    No one has claimed responsibility for the church attacks.

    Sectarian violence is not new in Iraq and has occurred over the country in the last few months.

    In August, insurgents launched deadly attacks on four churches in Baghdad and one in Mosul.

    Those attacks were blamed on the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi terror network. Two weeks ago, men armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles killed seven Christians leaving their jobs at a social club in Baghdad.

    The al-Zarqawi network, suspected in the August church attacks, remains the focus of almost-daily strikes by U.S. forces working to oust militants entrenched in the Sunni Triangle city of Falluja.

    While the interim Iraqi government continues to take steps to maintain the peace deal worked out last weekend with militants in Baghdad's Sadr City, efforts to reach a similar deal with insurgents in Falluja have stumbled.

    Peace talks in Falluja
    A representative involved in talks to bring peace to Falluja said Saturday that the group won't continue discussions with the interim government until the arrested head of the delegation is freed and U.S. warplanes stop bombing the city.

    Sheikh Khalid al-Jumaily, speaking on behalf of the Falluja group, made the remarks.

    On Friday, Sheikh Khalid Humood al-Jumaily, who is heading the talks on behalf of Fallujans, and three police officers were detained by U.S. forces.

    On Thursday, U.S.-led forces escalated their efforts to take on the insurgents in the Sunni Triangle, initiating air and ground operations. Falluja is 30 miles west of Baghdad in Al Anbar province.

    U.S. military officials insisted the operation was not an offensive to retake Falluja, but rather to lay the groundwork for an eventual offensive.

    Both interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and interim National Security Adviser Kasim Dawood said this week that if Fallujans don't produce al-Zarqawi and other militants, a wide military operation will be initiated.

    Deadly incidents
    Two U.S. helicopters with Task Force Baghdad crashed Saturday evening in southwest Baghdad, killing two U.S. soldiers and injuring two, a U.S. military spokesman said.

    The cause of the crash is under investigation. The crash occurred at 8:25p.m. local time (1:25p.m.ET).

    In northern Iraq, an Iraqi government official was assassinated Saturday in Kirkuk, and a U.S. soldier died of wounds suffered Friday in Mosul.

    In the Baquba area, in north-central Iraq, a blast overnight killed three civilians outside Baquba, a CNN stringer reported, and suspected insurgents launched a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a police-military compound in the city.

    In Baghdad, a hospital worker died in a mortar attack and a police officer was killed in Baghdad. Both incidents occurred Saturday.

    In western Iraq, two U.S. soldiers, a Marine and an Iraqi were killed Friday night in a suicide car bomb attack. It took place in Qaim (pronounced KA-em), near the Syrian border, the U.S. military said.

    The deaths of the troops bring the toll of U.S. military dead in Iraq since the war began to 1,093.
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