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      Baghdad – AINA — According to Iraqi television Al Iraqia, due to security improvements in Baghdad, 45 Assyrian Christian displaced families returned to their homes in a neighborhood of Dora, southwestern Baghdad. Neighborhood citizen and support councils in the area called on remaining displaced families to return. In …

      Stockholm – AINA — Ablahad Gallo Shabo is the latest bishop from the Syriac Orthodox Church to call for local self governance for the Assyrians in northern Iraq’s Nineveh plain. The prelate expressed his call for local self governance during an interview with Ishtar TV, which broadcasts from …

      Arabian Gulf – AINA — Bordering the Arabian Gulf and containing the towns of Dhahran, Al-Khobar, Dammam, Qatif, Hofuf and Jubail, the Eastern Province of Suadi Arabia is where oil was first discovered in Saudi Arabia in the 1930s. Near Jubail are the ruins of what was unearthed …

      BEIRUT, Lebanon – UPI — Iraqi Christians are finding themselves in legal limbo in Lebanon as sectarian violence in northern Iraq forces many religious minorities to flee their country. Iraqi Christians face increased sectarian tension in northern Iraq as al-Qaida fighters increasingly flock to the area as their …

  Invites you to the4th Symposium „Suryoye l-Suryoye“ܠܘܡܕܐ  ܪܒܝܥܐܕܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܠܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐOctober 3rd – 5th, 2008in Stockholm / Swedenin cooperation withLehrstuhl für Orientalische Philologie Invitation ܙܡܝܢܘܬܐ       1st circularDear graduates and students of the Suryoye people, We are happy to invite you to the 4th symposium “Suryoye l-Suryoye”, a multidisciplinary conference in …

By Lisa Millegan    USA – modbee — From classical to pop music, the “Melodies from the East” concert will give a full range of the best in Assyrian entertainment. The three-hour show, scheduled next weekend at the Gallo Center for the Arts, will celebrate the music and culture of …

By Charles Levinson    KIRKUK, Iraq – TODAY — Hiwa Assad and his wife, Guller Sabbah, are still visibly in love after 20 years of marriage. They snuggle on the couch, exchange smiles as they talk and keep their sparsely furnished home ringing with laughter. He is a Kurdish former …

      BEIRUT – AFP — Arab media reported on Sunday that a brigadier general thought to be the Syrian regime’s liaison with Hezbollah in Lebanon has been assassinated. The reports came almost six months after the killing in a Damascus car bomb of top Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughnieh, …

      TEHRAN – Tehrantimes — MP Yonatan Bet Kolia, the representative of the Assyrian and Chaldean Christian communities in the Majlis, said on Saturday that religious minorities live in peace in Iran and are free to perform their religious ceremonies. The MP also said the Iranian officials are committed …

By Cindy Wooden    ROME – CNS — The Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Kirkuk, Iraq, said his city was calm a day after a suicide bombing left dozens dead, but he also said people in the area are forced to live with absolutely no idea of what the future holds. …