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Assyrian Girls Killed in Bartella

Tara Majeed Betros Al-Hadaya, Taghrid Abdul-Massih Ishaq Betros and her sister Hala Abdul-Massih Ishaq Betros, were were returning to their homes in Bartilla, from a hospital in Mosul where they worked, when their car was attacked by a group of terrorists who opened heavy fire. The attack took place in …

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The Last Assyrians, in English, will be shown in Lebanon

The film has received congratulatory notes from Cardinal Ignace Moussa Daoud, Patriarche Emerite d’Antioche des Syriens, Prefetto della Congregatio Pro Ecclesiis Orientalibus and the Director of the Oriental Catholic Churches in Vatican.? It has also received support from the Assyrian Democratic Movement, the Assyrian Democratic Organization; Mr. Yonnadam Kanna, former …

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Iraq’s Disappearing Christians

Well, yes, it does. Our Lady of Salvation was just one of five churches attacked in a series of coordinated explosions in Baghdad and Mosul on Aug. 1, a Sunday, between 6 and 7 o’clock in the evening. In total, these car bombings killed 11 persons and injured 55. In …

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4000 Families: Why Iraqi Christians are Moving to Syria

The interim constitution states that “Islam is the official religion of the State and is to be considered a source of legislation” and while recognizing religious freedom “respects the Islamic identity of the majority of the Iraqi people.” For some, Islamic identity means the imposition of Muslim morality. In Sadr …

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Letter to the United Nations

Our people were subject, for many reason, and since more than one thousand years, to a series of tortures and persecutions due to their ethnicity, culture, and religion. ? The second half of nineteenth and the first decades if the twentieth centuries witnessed mass campaigns of genocide, the result of …

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Systematiska attacker mot assyrierna i Irak

Men det handlar minst om ett hundratal d?da och skadade, i huvudsak civila. Dagens h?nsynsl?sa r?der mot de kristna assyrıer i Irak, kom efter en l?ng period av trakasserier och mord p? assyrier i landet. Det var d?rf?r en tidsfr?ga innan assyrierna i st?rre omfattning skulle komma att falla offer …

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Till utrikesdepartementet

Med tanke p? att, dessa terroristiska angrepp hade utstakat det Assyriska/Kaldeiska/Syrianska folket, s? m?ste det inses allvaret i detta, i internationell niv?. D?rf?r att denna incident, som ut?vades av reaktion?ra krafter, och anhanget av den befintliga statusen, framl?gger dimensionen av hur pass de hyser agg mot v?rt folk. Det ?r …

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Commemoration of the Iraq Church Bombings

announce that onFriday, August 6th, 2004at the Assyrian Church of the East located at680 Minnesota Ave, San Jose,we will commemorate theMartyrs of Iraq?s Church BombingsThat occurred on Sunday, August 1st, 2004Mass will start at 7:00 pmCelebrated byHis Excellency Mar-Bawai Sorowith The Presence of His Excellency Mar-Sarhad Yousip JammoSpeeches and other …

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Massacre in Baghdad: Children 6 and 16 Killed at Home!

The family who are well known Assyrian Christians had been threatened. While the family was out terrorists entered and shot the two Children at point blank range. `We are doing our best to get out to the world the simple message that the Assyrian Christians who are the indigenous people …

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