Iraqi Christians worship in fear
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BAGHDAD -- During Christmases past, Iraqi Christians crowded into the Virgin Mary Church on Karada Street, jovial congregants young and old spilling out noisily onto the sidewalk to celebrate Mass. Even last year, the first Christmas in the shaky postwar era, the pews were nearly filled to their 800-person capacity.
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Iraq's prime minister pledged Saturday to protect and support the Christian minority that has been fleeing the chaos and sectarian violence in the country.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala on Saturday where 2.5 million pilgrims marked the climax of a major Shi'ite rite, a day after gunmen attacked worshippers and police in other southern cities.
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Chaldean Christian officials were left surveying the damage to one of their churches in Mosul on Wednesday a day after gunmen stormed the building in western Mosul&#39;s Shefa neighbourhood.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which dozens of people were killed and nearly 100 wounded, officials said.
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The Zoroastrians fear that they are fighting the extinction of their faith, a religion that scholars say is at least 3,000 years old.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police fired warning shots and barred vehicle traffic leading to Kufa on Friday, fearing an outbreak of violence as hundreds of worshippers descended on the holy city for the first weekly prayers since radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr relinquished control of its revered shrine under a peace deal.    Separately, France said it had received word that two French reporters held captive in Iraq were alive while one of their employers claimed the kidnappers had handed them over to an Iraqi opposition group, raising hopes that the hostages could soon be released...
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Iraqi Christians won't be celebrating  Christmas this year. Midnight mass, the centerpiece of  Christmas festivities in Iraq, has been canceled because of  night-time curfews.
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Reporters from The Associated Press visited mosques around the world Friday to take the pulse of the faithful at a time of upheaval in Islam. They found believers who, for all their cultural and geographical diversity, share an anger over Iraq and the Palestinians and a feeling that their religion is under threat from the West.
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Iraqi suspects await trial, but the Christian Peacemaker Teams say they oppose harsh punishments.
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Leaders of the U.S. Islamic community are fearful that sectarian slaughter tearing Shi'ite and Sunni communities apart in Iraq is testing unity among Muslim immigrants in the United States.
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The strength and character of Iraqi Christians was evident Sunday when they answered the call of bells and prayed in churches that had been bombed just the day before.
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Fear still pervades life in Iraq despite a recent reduction in violence, the spiritual leader of Iraq's Catholics said Monday, making a Christmas appeal for refugees who have fled the country to return nonetheless.
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Real estate agent Dave Eschenbach is an active member of his church, but he feels uncomfortable around a sizable portion of U.S. Christians -- those who believe they could be transported to heaven at any moment.
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Fewer Iraqi Christians than usual came to church for Christmas Day prayers on Saturday, but those that did came despite fears insurgents, who have attacked churches and mosques in the past year, would strike again.
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Iraqi police fired warning shots and barred vehicle traffic leading to Kufa on Friday, fearing an outbreak of violence as hundreds of worshippers descended on the holy city for the first weekly prayers since ...
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BAGHDAD -- The two men knocked on Abu Salam's door on a Friday morning. He was one of the last remaining Christians on his block.