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Of what rite or Church are the Christians of Iraq, generally-speaking?
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The majority of Iraqi Christians (Assyrians) belong to the Chaldean Catholic Church or the (Ancient)Assyrian Church of the East.
A smaller groups belong to the Syriac Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, Melkite Catholic, and Antiochian Orthodox Churches.
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You know, this bothers me. I can at least pray for them by name now. When we dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, we wiped off the face of the earth the largest group of Christians in Japan. Are we protecting the Iraqi Christians like we are protecting the Shi'ites and their major shrines which are all in Iraq? I wonder.
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I've seen rather bitter websites (non-Japanese I must add) where it has been asserted that Nagasaki was bombed precisely because it had a large Catholic community. This maybe reading far too much into the anti-Catholicism of the Protestant American establishment, but the fact remains, a Christian country almost destroyed the largest Christian community in Japan.
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It has truly been said that in the USA "anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals". Check Andrew Greeley's book An Ugly Little Secret for all too many illustrations.
An bhfuil t� in Eireann? Beidh failte romhat ar an Liotoirge Diaga ins an Leas Ard-Eaglais, Baile Atha Cliath, gach D� Domhnach - 1600.
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Go raibh maith agat, a hAthair. T�im i mo ch�na� i gContae an Chabh�in, ach t� me i mBaile �tha Cliath go minic. Ba mhaith liom an Liotoirge Diaga a �isteacht, a luaithe is f�idir, nuair a bheidh am saor agam.
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Based on the figures reported by the 2006 Annuario Pontificio, the Eastern Catholics in Iraq were as follows:
Chaldean Catholics: 189,315
Syrian Catholics: 63,000
Armenian Catholics: 12,000
Melkite Catholics: 100
Some demographers estimated that the Chaldeans and their counterpart, the Assyrians, comprised almost 1,000,000 Christians in Iraq before the war.
The Annuario lists Latins at around 2,000.
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T� t� i do ch�na� i gContae an Chabh�in! Go hiontach - bhi mo mhathair as Cross ar Lough! Beidh m� a fanacht leat.
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Hello
For those of us who do not know Irish (if it is Irish not sure what the proper word is for Irish Galic?), what did you say? If it is a forum for all, then we should all understand.
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Originally posted by Garajotsi:
Hello
For those of us who do not know Irish (if it is Irish not sure what the proper word is for Irish Galic?), what did you say? If it is a forum for all, then we should all understand.
Nycholaij Hmm - well I can recognise that as Irish - the Irish Gaelic - so yes you are correct. However I as an English speaker have to cope with other folk using Ukrainian and other languages when I do not understand them - frankly I just let it pass over me Anhelyna
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neither one of us used Irish to say anything at all about Iraq!
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Apologies,
I forgot to include the Armenian Christians living in Iraq of both the Armenian Catholic Church and Armenian Apostolic Church in my original reply.
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Originally posted by bupanishad2012:
You know, this bothers me. I can at least pray for them by name now. When we dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, we wiped off the face of the earth the largest group of Christians in Japan. Are we protecting the Iraqi Christians like we are protecting the Shi'ites and their major shrines which are all in Iraq? I wonder.
Andrew I am sure that our troops are doing what they can to protect the churches. Having said that, I think it is also true that in the minds of many American politicians and beureaucrats, "Christian" means baptist or methodist. I recently heard a baptist pastor say that God wanted us to go into Iraq to liberate for the Gospel, so that these people who have never heard the Gospel, might be given a chance. There was no awareness at all of any kind of indigenous church. I also think that this is why the United States and evangelicals do not support the palestinian Christians. It is because most palestinian Christians are Catholic or Orthodox, in other words, they don't count. Sorry, that is another subject, but it is related. I mentioned in another post that Rick Warren and probably many other evangelical leaders have great plans to build super mega church complexes all over Iraq. I wonder if they are going to attach Walmarts to them as well  . (Sorry, I'm in a fiesty mood this morning). Peace in Christ, Joe
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