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Music Fans Rally Up 9,000 Bibles for
Kurdistani Christians
28.3.2007
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9,000 Bibles in local Kurdish languages, mainly
Sorani and Badini
March 28, 2007
London, -- A British Christian radio station
announced Tuesday that its listeners have donated
about $88,425 to send some 9,000 local language
Bibles for Iraqi Christians after only three weeks
since the launch of its partnership with Open Doors
U.K.
London-based Premier Radio – who designated Open
Doors as its Charity of the Year – had asked its
listeners to help raise money to send Bibles to
Christian believers in Iraq at the request of Open
Doors.
“Iraq is on the edge of civil war and Kurdistan is
the only area where the situation is improving,”
said Premier’s chief executive, Peter Kerridge, in a
released statement. “As fellow believers, we must
support the beginnings of a Christian community in
Kurdistan every way we can.”
Open Doors U.K. reported news that small groups of
Christian converts are emerging in villages in
Kurdistan region in (northern Iraq) where most of
the Christian population exist.
“These Christians worship in local Kurdish
languages, mainly Sorani and Bahdinani, but there is
little literature available in these languages,”
explained Eddie Lyle, CEO of Open Doors U.K. to
Premier Radio.
Meanwhile, the situation for most Christians in Iraq
is far from improving.
The UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees) has called the plight of Iraq’s Christian
minority – which make up only three percent of
Iraq’s 26 million population – a humanitarian crisis
with Christians composing nearly half of the
refugees fleeing Iraq. Christians have increasingly
been the target of violence including robbery of
shop owners and kidnaps for ransom incidents.
Recently, USCIRF (United States Commission on
International Religious Freedom) urged the U.S.
government to take more decisive action regarding
Iraq’s escalating refugee problem.
Premier Radio will continue to promote Open Doors’
projects throughout 2007, including Open Doors
first-ever Great Big Tea Party and Open Doors Week
in June.
“This is just the beginning of our year long
campaign to support persecuted Christians across the
globe through Open Doors,” said Premier’s Kerridge.
“There is still much more work to be done in the
Middle East and beyond.”
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