Assyrian news

By Charles Levinson    KIRKUK, Iraq – TODAY — Hiwa Assad and his wife, Guller Sabbah, are still visibly in love after 20 years of marriage. They snuggle on the couch, exchange smiles as they talk and keep their sparsely furnished home ringing with laughter. He is a Kurdish former …

      BEIRUT – AFP — Arab media reported on Sunday that a brigadier general thought to be the Syrian regime’s liaison with Hezbollah in Lebanon has been assassinated. The reports came almost six months after the killing in a Damascus car bomb of top Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughnieh, …

      TEHRAN – Tehrantimes — MP Yonatan Bet Kolia, the representative of the Assyrian and Chaldean Christian communities in the Majlis, said on Saturday that religious minorities live in peace in Iran and are free to perform their religious ceremonies. The MP also said the Iranian officials are committed …

By Cindy Wooden    ROME – CNS — The Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Kirkuk, Iraq, said his city was calm a day after a suicide bombing left dozens dead, but he also said people in the area are forced to live with absolutely no idea of what the future holds. …

  Iraq’s Christians form new militias to combat Islamic extremists Iraq’s Christians have taken up arms and formed new militias in a desperate effort to defend their beleaguered communities from an onslaught by Islamic extremists By Damien McElroy in Karamlis    Mosul, Iraq – AINA — In the five years …

      Southern, Iraq – Catholic News Agency — Christians in the southern Iraq have begun a campaign to restore churches which have been rendered unusable due to war and neglect. Father Imad Aziz Al Banna of the Chaldean Archeparchy of Basra told Iraqlaan News Agency that the local Christian …

      Sweden, Stockholm – AINA — One of the representatives of the Popular Council of the Chaldean Syriac Assyrians – an Iraqi-based Assyrian organization – acknowledged yesterday his organization receives Kurdish funding. The acknowledgment, made by the organizations representative in Europe, Mr. Gibrael Marko, was aired today on the …

By Marianne Brückl    Pressemitteilung — Freedom on native ground, a life in peace and the preservation of their historically valuable language — this is the dream of every Assyrian. But expulsion and fear of torture or death is destroying this dream. The people who populated the Osmanian Empire for …

      Vatican – catholicnewsagency — Vatican City, Jul 23, 2008 / 10:10 am (CNA).- As part of an effort to bolster Iraq’s diplomatic relations in Europe, Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki is making stops in Germany and Italy this week. On Friday he will pay a visit to Pope Benedict …

       BEIRUT, Lebanon – The New York Times — The foreign minister of Syria reiterated on Monday that Syria intends to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon, for the first time since the two nations gained independence more than 60 years ago. “We are determined to open an embassy and …