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By Pierre Attallah Beirut – annahar — Is it possible that the future of Christians in Lebanon is better than the fate of Assyrians and Syriac Christians in Iran, Iraq and Turkey? This is a large Question that casts a heavy shadow on all observers of the evolution …
Read More »Bush Administration Assures Democrats on Iraq Intentions
By David Gollust Washington – VOA — The Bush administration said Friday a proposed agreement with Iraq governing the use of U.S. forces in that country would not tie the hands of a future President on Iraq policy. The envisaged deal, to take effect at the beginning of …
Read More »Situation of Iraqi Assyrian Christians Discussed in Nuremberg
Brussels – ACE — On Friday 18th and Saturday 19th January 2008 the Solidarity Group for Tur Abdin & North Iraq organized a conference in Nürnberg, Germany on the plight of Iraqi Christians and the challenges faced by the international community. The Assyria Council of Europe (ACE) …
Read More »Iraq Church Bombed for Second Time
Baghdad – AFP — A car bomb has exploded outside a church in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, slightly injuring two people, in the latest in a wave of attacks on Christian buildings. The booby-trapped car was discovered parked outside the Al-Tahira Chaldean church in the …
Read More »Police arrest murder suspect in the Fuat Deniz case
Sweden – ESNA — At 3:39 PM local time, the police in Gothenburg announced the arrestment of a 40 year old suspect after having cooperated with the federal police and the local police of Örebro, where Fuat Deniz was attacked with a knife at December 11th. More …
Read More »Man Arrested for Murder of Swedish Assyrian Researcher
Sweden – Thelocal — A man has been arrested in Gothenburg on suspicion of murdering university lecturer Fuat Deniz, who was stabbed on campus at Örebro University in central Sweden last month (AINA, 12-13-2007). The man arrested is in his forties, police say. A warrant had earlier …
Read More »Breakthrough in university murder case
Sweden – TT/The Local — State forensic experts have helped bring police in Orebro a step closer to identifying a man suspected of murdering university lecturer Fuat Deniz. -Political motive suspected in Orebro murder (16 Dec 07) -University murderer remains at large (14 Dec 07) -Stabbed lecturer …
Read More »Archbishop of Kirkuk Says Bombs Will Not Kill Hope or Stop Dialogue
Kirkuk(Irak) – AsiaNews — “We are concerned by yesterday’s attacks but we continue to have hope and we will continue in our commitment to inter-religious dialogue”.Msgr. Louis Sako, Archbishop of Kirkuk declared to AsiaNews in the aftermath of yesterday’s two car bomb attacks (not three as it …
Read More »Turkish police foil plot to kill priest
ANKARA – Reuters — Turkish police have foiled a plot to murder a priest, in a case that recalls other attacks this year against Christians in Muslim but secular Turkey, newspapers reported on Monday.Police in the coastal resort of Antalya detained a young man on Sunday on …
Read More »Turkish Television: “Need a Weapon to Kill Christians? I will Give You One”
ANKARA – The Brussels Journal — The well-known Turkish nationwide television station ‘Show TV’ aired on 8th, 15th and 29 November 2007 a new episode of the old series “Kurtlar Vadisi-Pusu” – The Valley of the Wolves. (…) The film is about the relationship between the state …
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