Khazen

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - John Kwaghe lost three daughters to the terrorist militants, and also witnessed the attack. Dorathy Tizhe lost two daughters, and said that the militants came late in the night. "We are confused that hours after the so-called ceasefire agreement has been entered between the Federal Government and Boko Haram insurgents, our girls were abducted by the insurgents," Kwaghe said.

 

"We urge the government to please help rescue our daughters without further delay, as we are ready to die searching." It has been nearly a week since the government announced the ceasefire deal, which includes the release of the girls that were kidnapped from the Chibok secondary school, but so far there is no sign that Boko Haram is going to follow through on their part of the agreement. There was a separate attack late on October 22, where a bomb exploded at a bus station in the town of Azare in the stat of Bauchi in northern Nigeria. The explosion killed at least five people, and wounded 12. Though there are no official reports on who was behind the attack, Boko Haram is suspected.

Joseph A. Kechichian Senior Writer,

 

Beirut: In a country where a member of parliament—as well as a former minister—assaults a Ministry of Justice employee because he demands immediate attention, the very definition of corruption takes on an entirely different meaning, even if the vast majority of Lebanese crave law and order.

Whether a direct result of the long civil war that crippled the country’s institutions, or the effects of the three-decades long Syrian occupation, or even because of the overall lawlessness encouraged by ongoing militia activities, a certain mentality towards justice emerged that can only be described as being selective. Although Gargantuan efforts were deployed to maintain a semblance of impartiality, rendering justice in Lebanon was politicized, mimicking every other enterprise.

On the surface, Ministry of Justice statistics affirmed that a total of 139,119 new cases were added to the 390,808 pending civil and criminal files between October 1, 2006 and 30 September 2007, the last year for which such data was available. During the same period, 122,704 cases were adjudicated—an 88.2% rate of efficiency on incoming files, although 407,223 files were left pending in the system. Such a high rate illustrated the attention of judges and other employees even if many resolutions were the result of corrupt practices. According to Khalil Khairallah, a lawyer and professor of law at the Lebanese University who was recently quoted in local papers, a member of the higher judicial council confirmed “that most judges were corrupt.”

 

By Carl Bunderson

.- Reflecting on his recent trip to the Holy Land and to Iraqi Kurdistan, Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City said that for all practical purposes, the bishops of Mosul no longer have Churches to shepherd. “When we were in Erbil, we met with the Archbishop of Mosul, who along with his priests and all of the faithful of the archdiocese, have been driven out,” Archbishop Coakley told CNA in an Oct. 16 interview.

“He is, in effect, the archbishop of a Church that no longer exists.” Archbishop Coakley continued, saying, “they've all been scattered. There are no more Christians in his archdiocese. That's a traumatic, but illustrative situation, of what's happening there, and what can happen, if things don't improve.”

There are in fact two Catholic archbishops of Mosul: one for Chaldean, and one for Syriac Catholics. Both of them, as well as three Orthodox bishops, were forced from their home along with their people by the Islamic State in mid-July – three months ago.

Khazen History

Historical Feature:
Churches and Monasteries of the Khazen family