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On Wednesday, 30-November-2011, the Syrian Security Forces detained two Assyrians in Aleppo, Mr. Samuel Joseph Sawmeh and Mr. George Abdul-Massih Bahno. They were detained for using their cell phones to shoot videos of the long lines in front of a gas station in the Al-Azizieh Neighborhood in Aleppo. Such scenes …

  Im Namen der Assyrischen Demokratischen Organisation in Europa möchte ich mich bei der Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Völker und den Mitarbeitenden sehr herzlich für Ihr Engagement für die assyrischen Christen bedanken. Sie sind eine der ersten Organisationen, die seit den 1970er Jahren auf die Lage von religiösen und ethnischen Minderheiten …

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren! Wir möchten hiermit bekannt geben, dass am 17. Dezember 2011 ein Infoabend zum Thema „Stopp der weltweiten Christenverfolgung“ stattfindet. 1600 Jahre lang überstanden die Mönche im Südosten der Türkei alle möglichen Gefahren – jetzt machen Nachbarn dem Kloster Mor Gabriel das Land und die Existenz …

ADO-World.org 09-November-2011 WASHINGTON — Arab leaders are privately telling the United States that they have offered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "safe haven" in a bid to convince him to step down, a top US diplomat told lawmakers on Wednesday. "Almost all the Arab leaders say the same thing: Assad’s rule …

ADO-World.org The US government is looking into claims that Syria restricted its citizens’ access to the internet, using an American company’s technology. A group of hackers says it has downloaded data from the Syrian government telecommunications agency. It says the records suggest equipment built by Blue Coat is being used …

ADO – press: The al-Fayhaa stadium in Damascus, the Assad stadium in Latakia, the main stadium in the city of city of Deraa were being used to hold thousands of prisoners, said Ziadeh. Ziadeh said that the U.N. Security Council’s failure to pass a resolution on the Syria crisis had …

ADO – agencies: The Syrian government has detained more than 30,000 people since launching a deadly crackdown on opposition protests in March, a leading Syrian rights activist said Monday, as Washington condemned the Syrian army’s incursions into Lebanon and said that dissidents of the Damascus regime had either been killed …

ADO – agencies: Patients in Syrian state hospitals are subjected to torture and mistreatment as part of the government’s crackdown on dissent, while medics are also being targeted, Amnesty International said, as a leading Syrian rights activist said that Damascus has detained more than 30,000 people since launching March. “The …

ADO –  Press : An Arab League delegation tasked with restarting dialogue between President Bashar Assad’s government and the country’s diverse opposition to end the country’s eight-month crisis arrived in the capital Damascus Wednesday. But despite claims, the talks were “cordial and frank,” prospects for dialogue seemed dim, with the …

By Gina E. Ryder ADO-World.org Oct. 18 2011 A Middle East Church leader has expressed his concern for Christians and the potential adverse consequences that could result from increased pressure by the Syrian government, and especially if violence escalates into a fully blown civil war. The Syriac Catholic Church’s Patriarch …