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By Rosie Malek-YonanLos Angeles – AINA — The latest victim of the Assyrian Genocide unfolding in Iraq is 40 year-old Father Youssef Adel, the parish priest at Saint Peter and Paul Orthodox Church in central Baghdad. According to reports from AP and Reuters, just a few hours ago at approximately …
Read More »St. Jacob Assyrian Monastery: an Oasis in Turkey
By Büsra Ipekçi Mardin – todayszaman — Mardin’s Tur Abdin region is home to the Mor Jacob Monastery, with an early history that is the stuff of legend: The building serves the oldest Syriac Christian community in Turkey. The southeastern village of Barýþtepe, formerly known as Salah or Saleh, …
Read More »Assyrians Demonstrate Against Turkish Prime Minister’s Arrival in Stockholm
Stockholm – AINA — A group of Assyrians and Armenians gathered today outside the palace of the Swedish King in Stockholm ahead of the arrival of Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The demonstrators carried Assyrian and Armenian flags and demanded that Turkey acknowledge the genocides of …
Read More »Letter to the US Embassy because killing Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho
American Embassy Berlin Political SectionMr. John M. KoenigNeustaedische Kirchstr. 4-510117 Berlin Dear Mr. Koenig, Berlin – ADO — On February 29, 2008, following a sacred Mass, Mar Paulous Faraj Rahho, our Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, Iraq was kidnapped and his three companions were murdered by the raid. On …
Read More »Egypt to snub Syria’s Arab summit
Egypt has said President Hosni Mubarak will not attend a summit of Arab leaders in Damascus on Saturday. A junior cabinet minister will lead the Egyptian delegation instead. Saudi Arabia had said it would only send its Arab League representative rather than King Abdullah, and Lebanon is boycotting the summit …
Read More »Archbishop’s Kidnappers Demanded Formation of Christian Militia to Fight US
Mosul – Voices of Iraq — A source close to the family of the deceased archbishop, Faraj Raho, revealed that in addition to the 2.5 million U.S. dollars ransom, kidnappers of Raho demanded to form a Christian militia to battle U.S. forces. According to the source, this …
Read More »Assyrian Coalition Condemns Murder of Chaldean Archbishop
Washington – AINA — Members of the Chaldean Assyrian Syriac Council of America (CASCA) expressed profound sadness and condemned the senseless murder of the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho. Archbishop Rahho had not been heard from since he was kidnapped on February 29 after celebrating Mass …
Read More »Iraqi Christians Have No Militias to Protect Them
By Kevin McCandless London – CNSNews — The death of an Iraqi archbishop has given new impetus to campaigners’ attempts to focus attention on the plight of the embattled Christian minority in the Middle Eastern nation. The body of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was found outside …
Read More »Archbishop’s Death Brutal Reminder of Jihadi Extremism
Mousel – Christian Newswire — “This was no act by ordinary criminals, but rather an act of intimidation by cowards that preyed upon a peaceful man.”–Faith J.H. McDonnell, Director of IRD’s Religious Liberty Programs The body of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop has been discovered following his kidnapping in …
Read More »Guest Editorial: Genocide: Turkey’s Dark ‘Secret’ Resonating The Airwaves
By Rosie M. Yonan Los Angeles – AINA — With the world’s attention focused on the battlegrounds of Belgium and France, under the protective mask of WWI, the systematic extermination of Assyrians, Pontic Greeks and Armenians in Ottoman Turkey was carried out by Sultan Abdul-Hamid II, and the Young Turks, …
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