Iraq

In Washington D.C. Earlier Mr. Kanna spent four days in Washington D.C. holding high level meetings with Mr. Lewis Libby, the Chief of Staff for Vice President, Dick Cheney, and members of his staff. The meeting took place at The White House. He also met with Mr. Philo Dibble, Deputy …

“We were against the war from the beginning, but now it is important that the foreign contingents stay in Iraq,” Bishop Shlemon Warduni said in statements Sunday to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera. “If they abandon us, it will be worse,” he said. “It would be a catastrophe …

He is sure that this is the case. Muayed, a 41 year-old Chaldean Catholic born and raised in Baghdad, spends most of his day speaking with people while working as transporter. He says he views the killing of hostages as confirmation that foreigners are involved. “Personally I, like so many …

The historic Assyrian political aspirations for a self-administered area in the plains of Nineveh in the environs of Mosul were officially endorsed by the Baghdad Conference of October 2003. Officially known as the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Conference, the Baghdad conference was jointly sponsored by the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) and …

  The constitution, signed on March 8 by all 25 members of the Iraqi governing council, has been hailed as progressive by Middle East standards. But Paul Cooke, advocacy manager for the British-based Barnabus Fund, described the constitution as “very ambiguous” in regards to religious freedom. “What was positive was …

  Before the invasion of Iraq, Christians were present in many areas of Iraq. Estimates suggested that there were 100,000 in the Northern No Fly Zone, including perhaps half in the City of Mosul, 100,000 scattered in the South and Hundreds of thousands in Central Iraq with significant numbers in …

  Now, some Iraqi Chaldean Christians say they fear that militants will attack churches in Baghdad on Easter Sunday. Chaldea was the name 2,000 years ago of a portion of Iraq, then part of the Persian Empire. Chaldean Christians broke from the early Christian church over the question of Jesus’ …

Piro, who frequently travels to the Middle East for business and personal purposes, told a group of Turlock Rotarians Tuesday that Arab people are upset with Americans because of the government’s support of Israel, but people in Iraq are pleased with the U.S. presence. Even so, Iraqis are concerned about …

The campaign makes sense in the United States, where Christian denominations and other religions compete for adherents in a free market of ideas. But for Iraqi Christians — made up of Assyrians, Chaldeans and a smattering of smaller Catholic and Orthodox denominations, plus some Protestant churches dating back to colonial …

The basic law text negotiated the thorny issues of the role of Islam, Kurdish self-rule and the representation of women that had forced the US-picked interim Governing Council to miss a Saturday deadline for completion.“We just broke out (of the meeting). The Fundamental Law has been concluded,” a jubilant Intifah …