Again a Aramean spiritual leader is killed in Iraq

Touma Audo

3-3-2010: Exodus of the Arameans of Mosul continues undiminished: According to UN report already 720 Aramean families (4320 people) have left Mosul

1-3-2010: Peaceful demonstration on Sunday 28^th of February 2010 by the Aramean Orthodox and Catholics in Baghdeda (Qaraqosh), northern Iraq

27-2-2010: Council of Churches in Iraq appeals to the government to protect the Aramean people in Mosul, Iraq

26-2-2010: The Arameans of Mosul: A new Exodus and Ethnic cleansing is going on

18-2-2010: The Arameans of Iraq again victim of killings and bloodbaths:

24-12-2009: A Christmas “message” for the Arameans of Mosul: Four Aramean Churches attacked and one Aramean killed

26-10-2009: Exactly one month and one day after the dramatic appeal of Iraqi President to the United Nations, two car bombs were detonated in the neighborhood of the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq

1-9-2009: Arameans of Iraq: The East- Aramean Chaldean bishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk sounds the alarm bell

29-8-2009: Totally unfounded or has it a grain of truth in it? Greater- Israel and the ethnic cleansing of the Arameans of Mosul and surroundings in Iraq

14-7-2009: The Special UN envoy to Iraq, Mr. Ad Melkert, wants extra protection for the Aramean Christians in Iraq

13-7-2009: Seven Indigenous Aramean Churches in Baghdad (Iraq) attacked by car bombs

4-5-2009: Aramean blood continues to flow in Iraq…

15-11-2008: Iraq: The bloodshed of Aramean people and bombardment of churches continues undiminished

27-10-2008: Attempt of ethnic cleansing Mosul: The Aramean Srebrinica. Who is responsible and why?

14-10-2008: Aramean indigenous nation of Iraq: Removal of article 50, exclusion, killings, persecutions, displacements and ethnic cleansing in Mosul erea

2-9-2008: Again two Arameans killed in Iraq

Killing of Priest Yusuf Adel Abudi

4-5-2008: Again a Aramean spiritual leader is killed in Iraq. This time: The West- Aramean Syrian orthodox priest Yusuf Adel Abudi in Bagdad

11-4-2008: Through all the misery: Miracles happens in Iraq

6-4-2008: Funeral of the West- Aramean Syrian Orthodox Priest Yusuf Adel Abudi

Killing of Mgr. Faraj Raho

1-3-2008: East- Aramean Chaldean bishop of Mosul, Mgr. Paulus Faraj Raho was abducted on 29-2-2008 in Mosul.

13-3-2008: The East- Aramean Chaldean bishop Paulus Faraj Raho killed in Mosul

14-3-2008: Friday 14-3-2008: Funeral of Mgr. Faraj Raho in St. Addai Church in Karemlesh

16-3-2008: Mgr. Paulus Faraj Raho: A Great Spiritual Leader and a Worthy Sheppard in Charge of Jesus Christ

23-2-2008: Aramean centre for art and culture has been opened in Ankawa, northern Iraq

7-1-2008: Aramean Churches and institutions in Iraq under Attack

22-8-2007: AINA: The international lie- and hate machine and the cause of killing, persecution and decline of the Arameans of Iraq

Killing of Priest Ragied Aziz Gannie

3-6-2007: East- Aramean Chaldean priest Ragied Aziz Gannie brutally murdered in Mosul along with three deacons by Muslim extremists

25-5-2007: Terror against Arameans (including "Assyrians" and Chaldeans) of Iraq. Ethnic cleansing of the Indigenous people of Iraq

Killing of Isoh Majeed Hadaya

22-11-2006: The West- Aramean Isoh Majeed Hadaya killed by terrorists in Iraq

Killing of Priest Paulus Iskandar

12-10-2006: Aramean priest Iskandar beheaded in Mosul (Iraq)

Aramean people: Aramean people (not to be confused with ‘Armenians’) speak Aramaic, the language spoken by Abraham, Moses and Jesus. They are the indigenous people of what was called in ancient times Aram- Nahrin, in our days it is called ‘Mesopotamia’.

Some Arameans today identify themselves with “Assyrians”, because of the spiritual colonial hate generating activities of the Western missionaries and diplomats in the Middle-East in 16th and 19th centuries. Other Arameans became known as “Chaldeans”. However all of them are Arameans.In Turkey, the Arameans are called: Süryani. In Arabic they are called Al- Suryan.

Again a Aramean spiritual leader is killed in Iraq.

This time: The West- Aramean Syrian orthodox priest Yusuf Adel Abudi in Bagdad

Dutch Version

Iraq (Baghdad)- Today, 5-4-2008, the Aramean people, also made known as "Assyrians" and Chaldean, again were shocked by the killing of a innocent and peace loving Aramean spiritual leader in Baghdad, Iraq.

After the horrible and cowardice killing of the East- Aramean Chaldean bishop of Mosul, Mgr. Paulus Faraj Raho on 13-3-2008 the terrorists again stroke against the Aramean nation in Iraq. The victim this time is the 47 years aged West- Aramean Syrian Orthodox priest Yusuf Adel Abudi.

Yusuf Adel Abudi is now the forth Aramean spiritual leader in line who is being killed. After publication of an article on the website of www.asianews.it (see below), we contacted Baghdad and the horrible news was confirmed to us. This is the such-and-such brutal and criminal murder of a Aramean spiritual leader to terrify the Aramean nation, also known as "Assyrians" and Chaldeans, in order to cast them out of country. A terrible ethnic cleansing is going on!

Before Yusuf Abudi, the following Aramean leaders has been killed in Iraq.

12-10-2006: The West- Aramean Syrian Orthodox Priest Paulus Iskander in Mosul was kidnapped and brutally slaughtered.

22-11-2006: The West- Aramean Isoh Majeed Hadaya killed by terrorists in Iraq

3-6-2007: East- Aramean Chaldean priest Ragied Aziz Gannie brutally murdered in Mosul along with three deacons by Muslim extremists

13-3-2008: The East- Aramean Chaldean bishop Paulus Faraj Raho killed in Mosul

Aramean denominations in Iraq

West- Aramean Syrian Orthodox, around 80.000
West- Aramean Syrian Catholics, around 40.00
West- Aramean Syrian Melkites??????
East- Aramean Syrian Nestorian “Chaldeans, around 250.000- 300.000
East- Aramean Syrian Nestorian “Assyrians”, around 20.000

Yusuf Adel Abudi was a priest of the West- Aramean Syrian Orthodox Church in Baghdad.

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=11941&size=A

Syro-Orthodox priest killed in Baghdad

He was Youssef Adel, aged 40, director of a mixed Christian-Muslim school. He had been the target of threats and intimidation in an effort to make him quit. His funeral is tomorrow at the cathedral.

Baghdad (AsiaNews) - A Syro-Orthodox priest was killed by gunfire today in Baghdad, in the Christian neighbourhood of Zayiuna. The news is confirmed by sources of the same Orthodox Church. The victim was Youssef Adel, aged 40, of the Church of Saint Peter. According to the reconstruction of the attack, the priest was travelling in his car when around noon (local time) armed men opened fire.

The priest was the director of a high school that was attended by both Christians and Muslims, young men and young women. He had been the target of threats and intimidation intended to drive him away from his post, but he did not pay any attention to them. Recently he had celebrated a prayer meeting open to all Christians. His funeral will be held tomorrow in the Syro-Orthodox Cathedral of Baghdad.

The attack this morning is only the latest in a series that have been striking at the heart of the Christian community in Iraq. Not even a month ago, on March 13, the body of Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, was found. He had been kidnapped on February 29 by a terrorist group.

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