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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Mehmet Ali Bulun MARDİN – RADİKAL ADO – Tur Abdin: Police have started an investigation after a suspected group of people defaced the façade of the 1,700-year-old Mor Jacob Syriac Orthodox Church in Nusaybin, in the southeastern province of Mardin, with pro-Islamic slogans. The offenders allegedly …

By H. Said Friday, 16 July 2010 13:40 ADO: Syria (Hasaka) – A 5th century cathedral was discovered in Hasaka by the Syrian archaeological mission working at the site of Tal Hasaka (hill), northeastern Syria. Director of Tourism Department in Hasaka Abdulmasieh Baghdo said that the 31 m long and …

2010-07-01- Södertälje   A spokesman for the Södertälje (south of Stockholm) police declared to the Media that the famous Assyriska football player, Eddie Moussa, and his brother had died at 02:22 in the early morning after being shot at in a nightclub in Ronna district in Södertälje. According to an …

BBC News Stockholm Sweden has expelled a high-ranking Syrian diplomat for allegedly planning to abduct his daughter, Swedish media report. Syria’s charge d’affaires wanted to take his daughter out of Sweden because of her relationship with a young man there, Swedish television SVT says. The Swedish foreign office has refused …

By SAAD ABDUL-KADIR (AP) BAGHDAD — Two bombs exploded minutes apart Sunday near buses carrying Christian students in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least one bystander and injuring around 100 others, a security official said. Sunni Muslim insurgents have frequently targeted members of Iraq’s Christian minority, especially …

Belgium – Brussels  28/04/2010   European Parliamentarians Stressed, at a conference in the European Parliament, on Wednesday afternoon, the need for Turkey to recognize the "Genocide" of the Armenians, Assyrians Chaldeans Syriacs, and Pontic Greeks, as a necessary step prior to its accession to the European Union (EU).   The …

Half the refugees fleeing Iraq are Christian, dramatically reducing a presence that pre-dates Islam. Edward Stourton reports.   By Edward Stourton Published: 9:00PM BST 03 Apr 2010 Fr Rayan Paulos Atto showed me an elaborately decorated bronze and glass case mounted on the wall near the altar of his airy …

Tuma Palo Sydney – Sayfo Center ++ Ett slutgiltigt förslag om ett Seyfo-monument förväntas klubbas igenom nästa vecka, i Sydney i Australien. Det är AUA, Assyrian Universal Alliance, som ligger bakom initiativet och står även för omkostnaderna. Seyfo-monumentet kommer tillägnas minnet av offren för Seyfo-folkmordet under åren 1914-1918 och Simele-massakern …

– De borde respektera vårt beslut och vår åsikt säger riksdagspolitikern Yilmaz Kerimo (S) som efter erkännandet av Seyfo tagit emot anonyma hot om bojkott av partiet. Socialdemokraternas beslut att erkänna Seyfo som folkmord är odemokratiskt. Det tycker Turkiska Ungdomsförbundets kanslichef Serpil Önal. – Politiker borde lämna det till historisk …

The Swedish parliament is the first in the world to acknowledge the Turkish genocide on the Assyrian Nation.   The historical decision was taken after a long debate in the parliament on Thursday on the 11th of March 2010. It was an extremely narrow win as 131 parliamentarians voted for …