Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 09, 2021

President Biden Praises Papal Visit To Iraq

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Yesterday, President Biden issued a Statement ( full text ) on Pope Francis' just-completed visit to Iraq, saying in part: I congratulat...
Friday, July 03, 2020

Supreme Court Denies Review To Deported Iraqi Christians, Yezidis, Kurds

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The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied review in H amama v. Adducci,   (Docket No. 19-294, cert denied 7/2/2020). ( Order List ). According...
Tuesday, December 04, 2018

Congress Passes Bill Aimed At Prosecuting Iraq and Syria Genocide

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Last week, Congress gave final passage to HR 390, the  Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act  ( full text ). The bill now a...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Court Orders Release of Iraqi Chaldean Detainees

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A Michigan federal district court yesterday, in the latest installment in a case filed last year , ordered the release from federal detentio...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Judge Orders ICE To Stop Pressuring Iraqi Religious Minorities To Agree To Deportation

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Last year, in exchange for Iraq being removed from President Trump's travel ban Executive Order, Iraq agreed to take back its nationals ...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Vice President Concerned About Aid To Iraqi Christians and Yazidis

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Vice President Mike Pence issued a statement ( full text ) on Friday on promised U.S. aid to Iraq's Christian and Yazidi communities, sa...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

6th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments In Challenge To Deportation of Iraqi Chaldeans

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Yesterday, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals hear oral arguments ( audio of full arguments ) in Hamama v. Adducci. In the case, a Michig...
Wednesday, January 03, 2018

Bond Hearings Ordered For Detained Iraqi Immigrants

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As previously reported , in July a Michigan federal district court issued a preliminary injunction preventing Iraqi nationals who are subjec...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

USCIRF Issues New Report On Iraq

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With the defeat ISIS in Iraq, last week the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a Policy Update on Iraq ( full text )....
Monday, September 11, 2017

U.S. Plans To Return Retrieved Jewish Archive To Iraq

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According to a JTA report last week, an Iraqi Jewish Archive found by U.S. troops in the basement of the Iraqi secret services headquarters...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Injunction Extended To Protect Iraqi Nationals From Immediate Deportation

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In Hamama v. Adducci ,  (ED MI, July 24, 2017), a Michigan federal district court, in a 35-page opinion, issued a new preliminary injunction...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Court Bars Removal of Iraqi Christians and Shiites Until They Get Judicial Hearing

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In Hamama v. Adducci ,  (ED MI, July 11, 2017), a Michigan federal district court issued an injunction barring the enforcement of removal or...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Court Temporarily Halts Deportation of 100 Iraqi Chaldeans and Minority Muslims

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A Michigan federal district court yesterday issued a 14-day stay of the immediate deportation of over 100 Iraqi nationals who were arrested ...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

ICE Roundup of Chaldean Christians Leads To Lawsuit

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Last week ACLU of Michigan sued to stop the deportation of 114 Iraqi nationals, many of whom are Chaldean Christians, who were arrested in i...
Friday, February 27, 2015

ISIS Destroys Ancient Museum and Library Collections In Iraq To Purge Non-Islamic Content

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According to a report yesterday from the Daily Mail , in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul ISIS followers have wreaked widespread destruction...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

In Iraq, Excessive Official Holidays Lead To Educational and Governmental Concerns

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Al Monitor reports today that in Iraq, educational achievement and productivity in government, sevices and contruction sectors are being ad...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Vatican Calls On Muslims and Others To Condemn ISIS

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Vatican Radio reports that the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue yesterday issued a statement strongly condemning the atrociti...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

ISIS On Campaign To Destroy Religious Shrines In Iraq Hits Tomb of Jonah

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The Wall Street Journal reported Friday on announced plans of the insurgent group Islamic State to destroy religious shrines and graves in I...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Controversy Over U.S. Commitment To Return Collection of Jewish Documents To Iraq

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Religion News Service reported yesterday on the growing controversy over what the United States should do with a trove of Jewish documents,...