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BAGHDAD (AP) — Two elderly sisters, both Chaldean Catholic nuns, were stabbed to death in their home in Kirkuk, city police reported Tuesday, saying the motive for the attack was not known. Kirkuk police 1st. Lt. Marewan Salih said Fawzeiyah Naoum, 85, and her 79-year-old sister Margaret, were stabbed multiple …

The Ottoman Empire’s widespread persecution of Assyrian civilians during World War I constituted a form of genocide, the present-day term for an attempt to destroy a national, ethnic or religious group, in whole or in part. Ottoman soldiers and their Kurdish and Persian militia partners subjected hundreds of thousands of …

Syrian– ADO– On the 11th of March and when the deceased Ghazi Issac Younan was about to drive out of the petrol station near the town of Malkia , in the north east of Syria , two men and a woman inside a car were watching his movement outside the …

  ADO’s Chairman of Political Bureau Mr. Bashir Saade’s Speech on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary Messrs. Representatives of Arab , Kurd and Assyrian parties and national forces Representatives of our people’s social , cultural and commercial institutions Ladies and gentlemen Good evening Qamishly- ADO– We are pleased and …

Iraq’s Christians suffer much from persecution and are fleeing the country. Yesterday Metro published articles on why equally many Iraqi refuges seek shelter in Södertälje, Sweden, as in the entire U.S. Iraq’s non –Muslim minorities, most of them Assyrians (Syriacs and Chaldeans) face systematic cleansing in the shadow of the …

Introduction – a short resume Since the terrible Seyfo – the genocide against the Assyrians during the First World War, the Assyrian people has struggled and survived by sticking together with help from loyal leaders. Seyfo has and will set deep marks in our history. As the heir of the …

Dohuk, North Iraq (AINA) — Kurdish authorities are preventing Assyrian businesses from using Assyrian names or putting up signs using the Assyrian language on the front of their stores, according to the Assyrian website assyrian4all.net. Kurdish authorities have informed businesses that they may use Kurdish or English only. An Assyrian …

Södertälje 070310   Under dagen har ADO’s  Sverige Sektion rapporterat om gripandet av oppositionspolitiker i Syrien. I samband med en politisk manifestation fördes ett 40-tal politiska företrädare bort i buss av syriska underrättelsetjänsten, bland dessa Beshir Saadi samt Gabi Mushe som företräder Assyriska Demokratiska Organisationen, ADO i oppositionsledningen.   Enligt …

Södertälje 070310   Lördagen den 10 mars 2007 samlades den syriska oppositionen i Damascus för en politisk manifestation. Syftet var att bl.a. att protestera mot en lag som införts där statsmakten givit sig rätten att utan rättegång kunna döma en person. Oppositionen där Assyriska Demokratiska Organisationen, ADO ingår menar att …

Syria – Tel Wardiat– Peace and greetings to you from the Monastery of St. Mary at Tel-Wardiat, Hassake, Syria. It is my pleasure to keep in touch with you and I hope this email finds you to the best of health and happiness. I am delighted to share with you …