Assyrian news

     Berlin – IHT — More than 100 Iraqi Christians in search of a safer life will arrive this week in Hannover, a spokesman for Germany’s Interior Ministry said Wednesday. The group of nearly 120 refugees will arrive Thursday, a day before the sixth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of …

By Terry Mccarthy Northern Iraq – ABC — We first met Father Mofeed Toma in 2004, when he was abbot of the Christian monastery in the town of Al Qosh in the mountains of northern Iraq, near the Turkish border. That part of Iraq is controlled by the Kurdish authorities …

Kartmin, Turkey3/11/2009 Mor Gabriel, one of the world’s oldest functioning Orthodox Christian monasteries in Turkey for more than 1600 years, is in jeopardy of losing more than half its property. Turkish surveyors and Muslim villagers, armed with old maps and aerial photographs, are redrawing property boundaries owned by the monastery …

EWTN Staff Writer – 31-12-08   The President talks about important issues for Catholics: the life cause, the Papal visit to the US, the persecution of Christians in Iraq, the boycott of the Beijing Olympics. Check out the exclusive interview with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo. Q: Mr. President, this is the …

by Independent Press MADISON — The Presbyterian Church of Madison will host “Save the Flickering Light of Christianity in Iraq” on Sunday, March 22, when Juliana Taimoorazy, President of the Chicago-based Iraqi Christian Relief Council (ICR Council), will talk about the rampant religious cleansing afflicting Iraqi Christians in their war-torn …

by Charles Boyd Posted: Sunday, March 8, 2009, 15:42 (GMT)   Germany has accepted four hundred Iraqi refugees into its borders as part of an EU scheme, which aims to take in 10,000 people who have been displaced due to the violence that has plagued the country since the US-led …

March 05, 2009 BAGHDAD — Some 10,000 Christians who fled Iraq’s northern city of Mosul in the face of violent persecution last fall are beginning to return to the city, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq (RFI) reports.The pastor of a Mosul Chaldean church, Father Samir Elias, told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq …

Friday, March 06, 2009   Alsumaria held a dinner gathering in honor of the official Kurdish delegation and Kurdistani senior businessmen delegation visiting Lebanon to participate in the conference called for by the Kurdistani-Lebanese friendship association. The conference is aimed to increase job opportunities and investments in Iraq in general …