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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Acknowledge the plight of the indigenous Christian communities of Iraq and to bring to bear on the American and Iraqi governments the need for adequate and just protection for these ancient Iraqi communities. More details
Submitted by Philip Andrews – Deadline to sign up by: 06 August 2008 – Signatures: 261
More details from petition creator
While Iraq is constantly in world news reports the plight of Iraqi Christians goes mostly unnoticed. According to the Society for Threatened People in Goettingen, Germany, Iraq currently experiences the biggest persecution of Christians of our time. In fear of murders, bomb-attacks, kidnappings, and torture Christians have been fleeing the country by the thousands. Approximately 75 percent of the 650,000 Christians in Iraq have been driven from their homes. They have fled mainly to neighbouring Syria or Lebanon. A Christian community with a history of 2,000 years is in danger of becoming extinct, according to the human rights organization. Hundreds of Christians have been kidnapped in the past years. The Society claims that Christians are being driven out of Iraq systematically by Muslim extremists. Security forces and Arab militia do little to protect Christians. Even the US & UK forces do not provide ample protection according to the society.
Current signatories
Philip Andrews, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Benjamin Lowery
- Philip Glover
- Stephen E Woolley
- anthony ward
- Suzanne Norman
- Linda Duck
- Fr Timothy Finigan
- Robert Rooney
- Steve Bassett
- D Frostick
- Kevin Duck
- Paul Gargaro
- Fr Raymond Blake
- Delia Gaze
- Teresa Dempsey
- Gillian Carroll
- James Stubbs
- Jerzy Gawor
- elzbieta gawor
- Sebastian Crawford
- Tim Matthews
- Dr. Peter H. Wright
- Luke Cahill
- Lloyd Meadows
- Anthony Symondson SJ
- Anthony Jeffery
- Michelle Scott
- Mark Forster
- Thomas Bowman
- Moira Bennett
- Gregor Dick
- Joseph Shaw
- philip johnson
- Weronika Hansen
- Sean Finnegan
- Alan Paul Fimister
- Anabel Inge
- Andrew Swampillai
- jane Porter
- Elizabeth Thompson
- Michael Tristram
- Maria Chicote
- D Porritt
- Chris Wotherspoon
- george giles
- Fr John Boyle
- Paul G
- Sue Sims
- Malcolm Martin
- Stephen Keay
- Timothy Sh
- Michael Collis
- Clare Underwood
- Christine Neal
- Cameron McLarty
- CPK Smithies
- Laurence England
- Fr Stephen Willis
- Judith Rimmer
- Jason Jeffery
- Mark Alexander McLean
- Alan John Houghton
- Thomas Evans
- David Wingfield
- Peter Sharples
- Ivana Cahill
- Richard Dray
- Simon Nicol
- Ernest Leo Todd
- michael georgeson
- singh
- Matthew Doyle
- Hugh Simon-Thwaites
- pierre kirk
- Rachel Holliday
- Thomas FitzPatrick
- Ian Logan
- A M J L DELARUE
- Celia Parker
- Hayley
- Hamish Reid
- Martin Browne OSB
- Christopher Robertson
- Martin Murphy
- Nicholas Hawkins
- Vincent FitzPatrick
- Josephine Nixon
- Michael Rooney
- Joseph Kelly
- Fr. Jeffrey Steel
- Olivia McGregor
- dominie stemp
- Alicia Gomer
- Roger Sylvester
- Ian Cressey
- Damian Riddle
- Joe Whitbourn
- Lucy Nash
- Henry Whisenant
- Rebecca Heans
- Shirley Kennedy
- Damian Moxham
- Dianne Marcos
- Cecilia Kim
- Paul Waddington
- Jeff Mackie-Savage
- Iona Scott
- Alda Johnson
- Anthony Hesketh
- Timothy Shamoon
- Ian Bayliss
- Alexander Hay
- Clive Lane
- William Perry
- Joshua Scott
- Alex Scott
- Elizabeth Graham
- Simon Platt
- Ron Brand
- Damian Thompson
- Hazel Armstrong
- Peter Bridgman
- Alan Bancroft
- Angus Alderman
- Ann Parry
- H.Macpherson
- Jonathan Savery
- Roy Lewis
- Giuseppe Ciano
- Ben Taylor
- John Thornley
- Nick Kanel
- Philip Gregory
- Graham Lake
- Andrea Kelly
- Zain Shamoon
- Philip Davies
- Anne Carroll
- Mike Donnellan
- Roland Gilmore
- John Green
- Revd R Parrish
- Thomas Ward
- Ciaran Nagle
- Kieran Lettice
- Bridget Eckles
- Maggi Bridgman
- Michael Martin
- Huw Twiston Davies
- elena Iori
- Philip Gudgeon
- Joseph Smiles
- Michael B. Lee
- Ramsey Barreto
- Sean Taggart
- Rob Lacey
- J Boland
- Fr John Ryder
- Julie Harrington
- Andrew Harrington
- anna catherine antilli
- John Hanks
- Lily Brolly
- jeannette kenny
- Joe Obayda
- Philip Adams
- Lindsay lee
- Francois Mathieu Gael Sarah
- Robert Parry
- Alan Norman
- Alastair Webber
- simon pons
- David Joyce
- Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
- Dick King
- S King
- James
- Howard Dobson
- James Mooney
- Alexandra McLean
- Alexander Burnett
- Desmond - the bbc is pro-islam
- Mrs J Green
- MILENA ASSENOVA
- Murray Jacobs
- S. Wallace
- E Sanders
- Emma Tanner
- Maria Coates
- D & R PRENTICE
- Sharon Cooke
- Mark Clark
- Walter Attwood (Rev.)
- Owen Beer
- Nick Winser
- John Humphries
- Aline Horlock
- Bernard Kelly
- Martin Williams
- Richard Collins
- Dr C Buckley
- Kenneth Purdie
- Dr Christopher Guyver
- Emily Wiffen
- michael cooke
- Jeremy Knight
- Peter Bartlett
- Jane O
- Revd Dr Dermot Fenlon
- Rupert Firth
- Daniel Taylor
- Daniel Joyce
- John McCulloch
- Dr Timothy Stanley
- Anthony O'Connor
- james milmoe
- haydn john latham (pagan)
- C Sammons
- elzbieta gawor
- BRIAN GREAVES
- Alex Smart
- RAYMOND F. BRUSOKAS
- Michael Titmas
- I R V H Marchant
- Mike Brain
- janice saddington
- R Davies
- colin roberts
- Gerhard Zierl
- Howard Cooper
- Chris Davies
- ROBERT BARLOW
- Sallie Rothwell
- maureen ross jones
- Gareth Davies
- Ann Stanfield
- Christopher Herman
- Peter Alcock
- Raymond M Smith
- Andrew Wallwin
- David Forster
- steven noakes
- sanjeev masson
- Emma Jane Vessey
- JOHN SMALL
- Margaret Massey
- Jordan Tanner
- Eilian Williams
- Thomas Stocker
- Sidra Hussain
- Hilary Dyer
- John-Michael Bion
- Nicholas Price
- Liz Goode
- PETER HOWARD
- J Rawbone
- Steve Hallett
- yorkie
- Jordan Bell
- Tom Tamplin
