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Over 18 years old run the half marathon (21 km), less than 18 years old run 10 km. There was a lot of media present and we talked with the national radio and the national newspapers. People were interested in the flags and the t-shirts and they asked ?who the …

This is the logo on the shirts of our Assyrian youth whom are running with over 10.000 other runners in Enschede in Holland next weekend on the 16th may. We will meet at 11am in front of the Grote Kerk op de Oude Markt in Enschede, the marathon will start …

A statement of the German Embassy in Ankara said that the delegation including Roth, Social Democrat Party deputies Johannes Kahrs, Verena Wohlleben, Iris Hoffmann and Christian Democrat Party deputy Will Zylajew would hold meetings in Turkish capital Ankara, southeastern Diyarbakir and Mardin provinces, and Istanbul. The delegation will meet with …

? And so this is how the Val d’Oise daily paper, Le Parisien, presented the commemorative activities of the 89th anniversary of the Genocide of 1915, committed by the Young Turk government and executed by the tri, Dj?mal Pasha, Enver Pasha and Talat Pasha. It was a conference animated by …

“We were against the war from the beginning, but now it is important that the foreign contingents stay in Iraq,” Bishop Shlemon Warduni said in statements Sunday to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera. “If they abandon us, it will be worse,” he said. “It would be a catastrophe …

He is sure that this is the case. Muayed, a 41 year-old Chaldean Catholic born and raised in Baghdad, spends most of his day speaking with people while working as transporter. He says he views the killing of hostages as confirmation that foreigners are involved. “Personally I, like so many …

The historic Assyrian political aspirations for a self-administered area in the plains of Nineveh in the environs of Mosul were officially endorsed by the Baghdad Conference of October 2003. Officially known as the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Conference, the Baghdad conference was jointly sponsored by the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) and …

The historic Assyrian political aspirations for a self-administered area in the plains of Nineveh in the environs of Mosul were officially endorsed by the Baghdad Conference of October 2003. Officially known as the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Conference, the Baghdad conference was jointly sponsored by the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) and …

  The constitution, signed on March 8 by all 25 members of the Iraqi governing council, has been hailed as progressive by Middle East standards. But Paul Cooke, advocacy manager for the British-based Barnabus Fund, described the constitution as “very ambiguous” in regards to religious freedom. “What was positive was …

  Before the invasion of Iraq, Christians were present in many areas of Iraq. Estimates suggested that there were 100,000 in the Northern No Fly Zone, including perhaps half in the City of Mosul, 100,000 scattered in the South and Hundreds of thousands in Central Iraq with significant numbers in …