Yezidi News
Knights Templar and The Mysteries of the Peacock Angel
Mysteries of the Peacock Angel. Here’s part nine of the nine part series “Secrets of the Knight Templar“;, hosted by Mark Amaru Pinkham, North American Grand Prior of the International Order of Gnostic Templars. Produced by Ronald James
The History and Genocide of the Yezidis
By http://www.GnosticTemplars.org – Full interview of Yezidi leader Mirza Ismail who discusses the mysterious ancient history of the Yezidis and their current dilemma. Unless the US Troop withdrawal date is extended past the end of 2011 the Yezidis could face …
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Yezidi Town Recovers From Arabization
Shangal, a town in Nineveh province, has overcome the Baath regime’s Arabization campaign and created one of the few areas in Iraq run by Yezidis. Yezidis, a religious minority who are ethnic Kurds, primarily live in the western province of …
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Poverty, Education, Ethnic Identification Main Concerns for Armenia’s Yezidis: Yovanovitch
Epress.am – In Sept. and Oct. 2009, Embassy officers met with members of the ethnic Yezidi community, Armenia’s largest minority group, to discuss key issues the community faces in Armenia, according to a confidential cabledated Dec. 3, 2009, released by …
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Kurd’s tale of survival
Flight from Saddam and the violence after his overthrow leads to Elkhart. Shad, a 30-year-old Kurdish woman from Iraq, has immigrated to the United States in hopes she can live without fear for the first time in her life. Before …
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Hillary condemns Iraq bombings
Reiterating that those involved in extremist attacks will be pursued and brought to justice, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday condemned the series of bombings in Iraq over the past few weeks. “The United States joins leaders of …
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Yazidi villagers build sand barriers to guard against attacks
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Yazidi residents have surrounded five villages in Ninewa with sand barriers to protect them against possible attacks, according to a Yazidi official. “The villages of Srijka, Khitara, Doghata, Nafira and Khoshaba (30 km north of Mosul), …
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Yezidi Politician Asks Baghdad to Form Support Councils
From Iraq the Model: The head of the Progressive Yezidi Party, Wa’ad Metto said there were certain political ambitions behind the recent bombings in Sinjar (west of Mosul-Nineveh) that killed and wounded more than fifty people. Metto, said this attack and the …
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Jihad against Yazidis: 21 killed in jihad / martyrdom attack in northern Iraq
From JihadWatch.org: As predicted many times here, the jihad is back on in Iraq, now that the Americans are not there in numbers sufficient to keep a lid on it. “Suicide bombers kill 21 in northern Iraq,” by Jamal al-Badrani …
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Second Yezidi man found Murdered near Mosul
From www.TopNews.in Submitted by Mohit Joshi on Thu, 03/26/2009 Mosul, Iraq – In the second such killing in as many days, police on Thursday said they had found the body of another member of the minority Yezidi sect murdered near …
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