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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Clarification About the Preparations of the Governorate of Arbil for the Iraqi National Conference
In the middle of this optimism, the individuals who are preparing to name the delegates of Arbil are neglecting the role of the ADM. This they do despite the fact that the ADM is the representative of the ChaldoAssyrians in the Kurdish parliament, a parliament that they refer to …
Read More »About the Preparation Methods in the Dohuk Governorate (province) to the Iraqi National Conference
To accomplish this noble goal, a proper start must be present. However, the process for the preparation for the Iraqi National Conference and the nomination of delegates to it, which took place in Doduk Governorate, does not reflect such healthy start. This process did not abide by democratic …
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