Assyrian news

  By Scott Lindlaw U.S – AP — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday blamed the apparent collapse of a truce in Lebanon on extremists trying to “sow discord” as she renewed the Bush administration’s strong support of the Lebanese government. “I certainly hope that the Lebanese government will …

  By Kenneth R. Timmerman WASHINGTON- newsmax — A group of armed Muslims set fire to St. George’s Assyrian Church in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad last week, completing decimating what remained of a church already hit by a deadly fire-bombing in October 2004. “The bombing of St. George’s Church …

        BEIRUT- UPI — Syria sent Fatah al-Islam elements to Lebanon to cause havoc — at least that’s what a Lebanese Christian leader is claiming. Samir Geagea, an anti-Syrian politician who heads the Christian Lebanese Forces, accused Damascus of sending the Islamic militant group’s leader, Shaker al-Abssi, to Lebanon …

  By Joseph Keenan *Egypt — Christians in Egypt have voiced their anger at the Egyptian government for “failing to adequately punish a single Muslim perpetrator” as a human rights research centre shows that over 4000 Copts (Christians of Egypt) were killed or injured during the past three and a …

By Rosie Malek-Yonan Woodbury University – AINA — I want to look up at the Heavens and see the moon over Assyria.Often, I have wondered what it would be like to be able to say, I come from Assyria.To hold an Assyrian passport.To know that there will always be a …

        Egypt- Christian Newswire — For the past three and half decades, the Copts (Christians of Egypt) have been targeted by a wave of brutal attacks on their persons, churches, homes and businesses. Ibn Khaldoun Research Center (headed by Human Rights advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim) documented over one hundred …

        AMMAN- AINA– In April 2007, Mr. Nuri Kino, the award winning investigative reporter and film maker from Sweden, spent six grueling days in Amman, Jordan recording and witnessing the dreadful plight of the Iraqi Christian refugees. By God: Six Days in Amman (PDF) is a grim and sobering …

By Haore Sulaiman AMMAN- AINA– She chooses her words very carefully when she tells about what she has seen and heard during her trip in Iraq. One single word that is misunderstood can have devastating consequences for Christian groups, Margareta Viklund, president of the Swedish Committee for Assyrians (SKA) and …

  Republic of Iraq Spokesman for Iraqi government May 22, 2007 Baghdad-AINA– The official spokesman of the Iraqi government declared the following: The Iraqi Cabinet addressed the issue of threats and expulsions of Christian families in Baghdad by terrorist groups. The Cabinet expressed its full support to provide all necessary …

  By Nazih Siddiq NAHR AL-BARED(Libanon) – Reuters — Lebanese troops battled Islamist militants based in a Palestinian refugee camp on Sunday and 48 people were killed in Lebanon’s bloodiest internal fighting since the 1975-90 civil war. Twenty-three soldiers and 19 militants died in the clashes, which erupted before dawn …