By Tom Feran, The Plain Dealer Sunday, February 05, 2012, CLEVELAND, Ohio — As the soaring death toll from a crackdown on dissent threatened to push Syria into full-scale civil war, representatives of the country’s government in exile told a Cleveland audience today that they now see the overthrow of …
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You can find the original article in English here and Portuguese here. How representative are the Syrian Christians for Democracy of the Syrian Christian population? Syrian Christians for Democracy is a new organization that was established almost two months ago. The point for establishing it was to show that Christians …
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From Nic Robertson, CNN January 11, 2012 ADO-World.org Damascus, Syria (CNN) — At a funeral for a Syrian man allegedly killed by government forces, a grief-stricken sister wails uncontrollably. Mourners carried her brother’s casket Monday before thousands of anti-regime protesters, whose passionate anger against a brutal government crackdown was palpable. …
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By Douglas Hamilton JERUSALEM ADO-World.org 10-January-2012 (Reuters) – Israel is making preparations for the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and a flood of refugees from his minority Alawite sect into the Golan Heights, Israel’s military chief told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. "Assad cannot continue to hold onto power," …
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By ANTHONY SHADID ADO-World.org 10-January-2012 BEIRUT — In his first public address in months, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria lashed out on Tuesday at the Arab League for isolating his country, mocked Syrian rebels as traitors and vowed to subdue what he said was a foreign-backed plot against his country. …
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08-January-2012 Dozens of people known to be Assad’s security and intelligence agents attacked the Assyrian Democratic Organization’s (ADO) headquarters in the Al-Wusta neighborhood of Qamishly, where they wrote phrases and obscenities on the walls, as well as shouting vulgarities and slogans condemning the ADO and its demands for Democracy and …
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By Fareed Zakaria, CNN ADO-World.org 01-December-2011 Earlier this year, I thought the Syrian regime would be able to persevere. It has been extraordinarily brutal and, unfortunately, if governments are willing to open fire on their people with utter disregard for human life, it often works. Crowds disburse; people stop gathering. …
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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 …
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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 …
Read More »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 …
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