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London (AFP) Nov 7, 2010 Iraq's Christians should leave the country or face being killed at the hands of Al-Qaeda, an Iraqi Christian leader insisted here on Sunday. "If they stay they will be finished, one by one," Archbishop Athanasios Dawood told the BBC in an interview after reportedly making a similar appeal at the Syrian Orthodox Church in London. Al-Qaeda last week warned that Christians everywhere were "legitimate targets" in the wake of a recent bloodbath at a Baghdad church. The group had already said its gunmen were behind a hostage-taking at a Baghdad cathedral a week ago that ended in the deaths of 46 worshippers, including two priests. "Our people now in Iraq, they are living in danger. No protection, no support, nobody looks after them," London-based Dawood told the BBC. "Which is better for us. To stay and be killed or emigrate to another place and to live in peace?" Dawood appealed to EU countries to grant asylum to Iraqi Christians. "The Christians know they don't have any place in their country. We need their support."
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Turkey urges Iraq roundtable meet to form govtArbil, Iraq (AFP) Nov 7, 2010 Turkey's foreign minister called Sunday for a meeting of all Iraqi political groups on forming a government, as he visited the Kurdish north exactly eight months since Iraq's inconclusive election. "We hope to soon see all Iraqi ethnic and political groups gathered around a table to pave the way for the formation of a government in this country," Ahmet Davutoglu said in Arbil, the capital of ... read more |
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