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By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY – Catholic News Service — The U.S. Army has returned the Pontifical Babel College for Philosophy and Theology in Baghdad to the Chaldean Catholic Church, promising to repair or replace anything damaged while U.S. soldiers occupied the buildings, Vatican Radio reported. The seminarians, students and …

By Cindy Wooden ISTANBUL – News with permission — In 99-percent Muslim Turkey, most Iraqi refugees are not Muslims. A middle-aged Iraqi refugee in Istanbul who fled Mosul five months ago said the only hope for his fellow expatriates is for Western countries to open their doors to Christian Iraqi …

     North Iraq – AINA — A car bomb exploded earlier today in the Assyrian town of Baghdede in the Nineveh Plain, east of Mosul. No one was killed in the blast which left twelve people injured, two of them with seriously. The car bomb was close to one of …

By Gregg Krupa WEST BLOOMFIELD – detnews — A survey of the Chaldean community in Metro Detroit reveals that Chaldeans are far more populous than suggested by the U.S. Census Bureau and that both their income and the value of their homes is higher than the averages for southeastern Michigan. …

Mr Jacques Barrot Vice-President of the European Commission Responsible for Justice, Freedom and Security                                       European CommissionB-1049 Brussels, Belgium Ref: WT/150208/1/EU                                                                                                      10 November 2008   Dear Mr Barrot, Syrian human rights: the need for justice and freedom action It is widely acknowledged that the Syrian Arab Republic is a key player …

       Mosul/ Baghdad- worldmag — Armed militants killed Iraqi Christians Lamiaa Sabih Saloha and her sister Walaa Thursday morning in Mosul. The shootings took place just as many believed that violence directed at Christians in Iraq’s third largest city was subsiding and up to 200 Christian families who fled …

       Ankara- DPA — Four men who kidnapped an Assyrian-Christian priest in south-east Turkey last year were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on Tuesday by a court in the city of Diyarbakir, the Turkish state-owned Anadolu news agency reported. Father Daniel Savci (56) was taken hostage in November 2007 …

  Sargon E. Sapper Glenview, Illinois – USA– It is said that no man plans to fail, he simply fails to plan. In fact, without a working plan and specific goals to achieve a project cannot prosper. In a peaceful and carefully planned manner, during the year 1971, Chaldeans, Syriacs, …

       Australia – AINA– Violence and persecution against minority groups in Iraq continues, including communities of Christians which have been in existence for over 1500 years. The Assyrian Church of the East, as one of the Churches most affected, has mobilised itself worldwide to call attention to the crisis, and …

       Erbil – krg — The following is an interview with Nechirvan Barzani, the prime minister of the Kurdish regional government in North Iraq. Q: Despite significant gains in the security field, Iraq remains a dangerous place. While religious and ethnic tensions have lessened in key areas, the recent …