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Iraq's Christians Fleeing as Attacks Against Them Increase
July 2004
Excerpt: It was 10:30 in the morning, almost four months ago, and the children were getting ready for church. Aziz Raad Azzo, 5 years old, was drinking his milk; his 14-year-old sister Raneen was putting on her new clothes. When they heard a car pull up, Raneen, thinking her father was home, ran to the window and flung open the shutters. Four men shot her and her little brother in the head. The children's crime: Their father, a Christian storekeeper, had sold alcohol. Before the murders, the family received a photocopied death threat. "We are warning you, the enemies of God and Islam, from selling alcohol again, and unless you stop we will kill you and send you to hell where a worse fate awaits you,"

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"Eminent U.S. religious leaders astounded by violence against Christian heritage in Kosovo and Metohija
August 2004
Excerpt: The bishop emphasized that prior to March 17 of this year 115 Orthodox churches and monasteries had already been destroyed, and on March 17 an additional 30. 'To date not a single perpetrator has been found. Over 3,500 Serbs have been abducted or murdered. All this occurred not during a time of war but under the eyes of the international community.