Doves in Crimson Fields
Subtitle: Iraqi Christian Martyrs
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Published: May 2, 2017
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780852449127
Description: Christianity has been firmly established in Iraq for nearly two thousand years, but from the fourth century to the present day Christians in Iraq have faced periods of terrible persecution. This book brings together their stories, from the witness of martyrs sixteen hundred years ago, across the centuries, to our own time. In the twenty-first century Iraqi Christians have been confronted by relentless terrorist attack, by genocide and exile from their homeland. Alongside accounts of martyrdom and massacre under the Persian and Ottoman Empires and, in the twentieth century, the newly independent Kingdom of Iraq, Robert Ewan records the heart-rending stories of just some of the myriad of contemporary martyrs: Sister Cecilia Moshi Hanna, Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, Father Ragheed Aziz Ganni and of the massacre at Sayidat al-Najat Church in Baghdad.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Christianity in Mesopotamia; title: Koukhi - first church in Iraq; title: The Persecution of Iraqi Christians; title: Sultana Mahdookhet
label: 1; title: Brothers Jonah and Briskhisho
label: 2; title: Mar Mehna and the six martyred virgins
label: 3; title: Mar Shamoun Barsabbae
label: 4; title: Tarbow and her sister
label: 5; title: Shahdost
label: 6; title: Mar Youhanna of Arbeel and Father Yacoub
label: 7; title: Mar Abraham
label: 8; title: Mar Henannya al-Arbelee
label: 9; title: Mar Berhadsheba
label: 10; title: Mar Qardagh
label: 11; title: Mar Behnam and his sister Sarah
label: 12; title: Father Yacoub and Deacon Azzad
label: 13; title: Mar Eethallaha al Nohadri
label: 14; title: Mar Abed al-Maseeh
label: 15; title: Mar Patheon
label: 16; title: Eisho Asbaran
label: 17; title: Patriarch Shamoun VIII Yohanna Sulaqa
label: 18; title: Mar Georges
label: 19; title: The Alqosh massacre
label: 20; title: The massacres of Bader Khan and Noorallah Beg
label: 21; title: Mar Addai Scher
label: 22; title: Mar Yacoub Auraham Manni
label: 23; title: Archbishop Toma Audo
label: 24; title: The Semele Massacre
label: 25; title: Father Hanna Yacoub Qasha
label: 26; title: Cecilia Moshi Hanna
label: 27; title: Father Paulos Iskander
label: 28; title: Father Ragheed Aziz Ganni
label: 29; title: Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho
label: 30; title: Father Adel Youssef Abboudi
label: 31; title: Tony Adwar Shaweel
label: 32; title: Massacre of Sayidat al-Najat Church
label: 33; title: Glossary of Names; title: Sources and References