Assyrian news

        VATICAN CITY – zenit — There are signs of new hope that relations with the Assyrian Church of the East are advancing, says Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Cardinal Kasper met Thursday with Catholicos Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV, head of the …

The Christian Assyrians have been the ones worst affected among all the ethnic groups in Iraq despite the relatively small size of the community. The inferno in Iraq has evolved into a systematic mass murder on the Christian Assyrians. On June 8th 2007 a historical meeting was held between two …

        Beirut- Naharnet — Defense Minister Elias Murr declared victory over Fatah al-Islam terrorists, saying the month-long military operation has ended but that the siege of the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared will continue until the militants surrendered. “The military operations in Nahr al-Bared camp have ended, …

  By Alessandra Rizzo VATICAN CITY- AP — Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday he was greatly concerned about the fate of Christians in Iraq, returning to a theme he discussed with President Bush earlier this month. The pope also denounced the slaying of a Catholic priest in Iraq as a …

   VATICAN CITY- CNS — The small Christian communities heroically remaining in Iraq must work together, and assist and support each other, Pope Benedict XVI told the patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. “The” Today, tragically, Christians in the region are suffering both materially and spiritually,” the pope …

        Mosul(Iraq) – AINA — An unidentified armed group kidnapped eight Assyrian Christian students and teachers returning home to the Nineveh Plain from Mosul university Wednesday afternoon. The students of the Nineveh Plains travel on church provided community buses that transport them daily to school. One of the buses …

        Rome- AS — Two Christians have been killed and eight others kidnapped around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the site of other Christian murders earlier this month, the Catholic news agency Asianews reported on Wednesday. The latest killings took place on Tuesday in the same neighbourhood where …

        Baltimore- CRS — Catholic Relief Services (CRS) will provide assistance to Iraqi refugees living in Syria and Lebanon, thanks to nearly $2 million dollars from the US Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, and more than half a million dollars in private funds. The rapid escalation of sectarian …

         Baghdad- AsiaNews — Fr Hani Abdel Ahad, the Chaldean priest kidnapped last June 6 in Baghdad, is free and in good health. According to Mgr Jacques Issac, rector of Babel College, who visited him yesterday at the Chaldean Bishop’s Residence in the Iraqi capital, the clergyman “is very …

        Libanon – Al-Mustaqbal — The Lebanese daily Al-Mustaqbal has reported that Arab League Secretary-General Amru Moussa sought to prevent the Lebanese representative at the June 15 Arab foreign ministers’ meeting in Cairo from showing documents and evidence proving Syria’s involvement in the events at Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp, …