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Iraq's Christians Disenfranchised at Home and in U.S.
Iraq
January 2005
The Kurds are systematically displacing the Iraqi Christians, says Larry Allen, spokesperson for ICC. "The Kurds have been making a move for the Nineveh plain area and trying to expand Kurdistan out to the west."

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(1991-1996) BARKAT-- A Victim of the Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan
Pakistan
February 2005 (1991-1996)
Despite his complete legal exoneration, militants kept coming to his house to find him... Barkat kept receiving death threats from Muslim zealots through his mail also. Some Christian ministers arranged a student's visa for him to study abroad. A student visa was an easy and a fast way to send him out of the country.