Assyrian news

Ancient Mesopotamia was religiously diverse and polytheist.? Some of its history is recorded in the Old Testament.? Nineveh, near the modern city of Mosul, was the capital of the Assyrian Empire, which conquered Israel in 722 BC.? Approximately a century later? the Assyrians were themselves conquered by the Babylonians whose …

Britain’s Prince Charles (C) is presented a Bible by Syriac orthodox archbishops Saliba Ozmen (2nd R) and Samuel Aktas (L) at Darulzafaran Monastery in the southeastern Turkish city of Mardin, near the Syrian border, October 26, 2004. The Prince of Wales visited churches, mosques and Syriac monasteries in Mardin in …

In an article published Thursday in the online edition of the right-wing National Review, an influential neo-conservative activist appealed to the Bush administration to create a “safe haven” within Iraq specifically for Iraq‘s estimated 800,000 Christians, or “Chaldo-Assyrians”, 40,000 of who are believed to have left the country since the …

”If they don’t want us in Iraq, let them say it and we will leave,” said Samir Hermiz, 40, standing next to a church that was reduced to ashes. ”I’m really thinking of leaving Iraq.” The series of explosions which began at 4 a.m. o630 hrs ist caused no casualties …

The pre-dawn blasts hit churches across the capital over the course of an hour but there are no reports of casualties. A mortar round also exploded at one of Baghdad’s hospitals, killing one. Explosions have been heard in the rebel-held western city of Falluja where US planes and ground forces …

The film has received congratulatory notes from Cardinal Ignace Moussa Daoud, Patriarche Emerite d’Antioche des Syriens, Prefetto della Congregatio Pro Ecclesiis Orientalibus and the Director of the Oriental Catholic Churches in Vatican.? It has also received support from the Assyrian Democratic Movement, the Assyrian Democratic Organization; Mr. Yonnadam Kanna, former …

Well, yes, it does. Our Lady of Salvation was just one of five churches attacked in a series of coordinated explosions in Baghdad and Mosul on Aug. 1, a Sunday, between 6 and 7 o’clock in the evening. In total, these car bombings killed 11 persons and injured 55. In …

Our people were subject, for many reason, and since more than one thousand years, to a series of tortures and persecutions due to their ethnicity, culture, and religion. ? The second half of nineteenth and the first decades if the twentieth centuries witnessed mass campaigns of genocide, the result of …

Men det handlar minst om ett hundratal d?da och skadade, i huvudsak civila. Dagens h?nsynsl?sa r?der mot de kristna assyrıer i Irak, kom efter en l?ng period av trakasserier och mord p? assyrier i landet. Det var d?rf?r en tidsfr?ga innan assyrierna i st?rre omfattning skulle komma att falla offer …

Med tanke p? att, dessa terroristiska angrepp hade utstakat det Assyriska/Kaldeiska/Syrianska folket, s? m?ste det inses allvaret i detta, i internationell niv?. D?rf?r att denna incident, som ut?vades av reaktion?ra krafter, och anhanget av den befintliga statusen, framl?gger dimensionen av hur pass de hyser agg mot v?rt folk. Det ?r …