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By Tatul Hakobyan Verin Dvin, Ararat Province, Armenia – Reporter — On April 1 Assyrians throughout the world celebrate the New Year. The Assyrians have been celebrating this holiday for centuries and continue to do so today. When the Euphrates and Tigris overflow, the mighty god Marduk fights and defeats …

By Genevieve Pollock ARBIL, Iraq – Zenit — A couple transplanted to Northern Iraq is rallying support for the Church in the region, which needs the worldwide community to aid its time of new hope and rebuilding. Hank and Diane McCormick speak on behalf of several bishops and priests in …

     Berlin – IHT — More than 100 Iraqi Christians in search of a safer life will arrive this week in Hannover, a spokesman for Germany’s Interior Ministry said Wednesday. The group of nearly 120 refugees will arrive Thursday, a day before the sixth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of …

By Terry Mccarthy Northern Iraq – ABC — We first met Father Mofeed Toma in 2004, when he was abbot of the Christian monastery in the town of Al Qosh in the mountains of northern Iraq, near the Turkish border. That part of Iraq is controlled by the Kurdish authorities …

Kartmin, Turkey3/11/2009 Mor Gabriel, one of the world’s oldest functioning Orthodox Christian monasteries in Turkey for more than 1600 years, is in jeopardy of losing more than half its property. Turkish surveyors and Muslim villagers, armed with old maps and aerial photographs, are redrawing property boundaries owned by the monastery …

EWTN Staff Writer – 31-12-08   The President talks about important issues for Catholics: the life cause, the Papal visit to the US, the persecution of Christians in Iraq, the boycott of the Beijing Olympics. Check out the exclusive interview with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo. Q: Mr. President, this is the …

by Independent Press MADISON — The Presbyterian Church of Madison will host “Save the Flickering Light of Christianity in Iraq” on Sunday, March 22, when Juliana Taimoorazy, President of the Chicago-based Iraqi Christian Relief Council (ICR Council), will talk about the rampant religious cleansing afflicting Iraqi Christians in their war-torn …

by Charles Boyd Posted: Sunday, March 8, 2009, 15:42 (GMT)   Germany has accepted four hundred Iraqi refugees into its borders as part of an EU scheme, which aims to take in 10,000 people who have been displaced due to the violence that has plagued the country since the US-led …