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Hassake/Qamischli – ESNA — On February 27th Mr. A. Edward Mousa was arrested by the Syrian secret service (muhabarat) in the city Hasake in Syria. He was held for ten days in the headquarter of the Syrian secret service in Damascus. The background of the arrest was an …
Read More »New Contact With the Iraq Bishop’s Kidnappers Awaited
Mosul – AsiaNews — Concern is increasing in Mosul, where since March 3 there has been no contact with the kidnappers of Chaldean archbishop Faraj Rahho. The prelate was kidnapped on February 29 by an unknown group. While a sign from the kidnappers is expected this evening in Mosul, …
Read More »When Will the Kidnapping and Murder of Assyrians Stop?
Nuri kino Nineve(Iraq) – AINA — Last Saturday I filled my desk with things I haven’t had the time to attend to for the last few months. I was ready to work on such mundane things as investigations and accounting and letters. At seven a clock in the …
Read More »Assyrian Security Force Needed in Iraq’s Nineveh Plain
By Waleeta Canon Nineve – AINA — On Feb. 20, 2008, Uruknet1 and the Kurdistan Post2 reported that Masroor Barzani, son of the Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani, was arrested in Austria for an assassination attempt against Kurdish journalist and outspoken critic of the KRG, Mr. Kamal …
Read More »Chaldean Bishop Kidnapped in North Iraq, Bodyguards Killed
Mosul(Iraq) – AINA — Archbishop Paulos (Paul) Faraj Rahho, of the Chaldean Church of Mosul, was kidnapped today at 5:15 P.M. as he left the Holy Spirit Church in the Al-Noor area of Mosul city. His driver, Faris, and bodyguard Rami, were shot and died at …
Read More »Kurdish Authorities Arrest Assyrian Deacon in North Iraq
North Iraq – The Mesopotamian — According to the Assyrian website The Mesopotamian, at 6:30pm, on Sunday 17 February 2008 in the town of Telkepe (Nineveh Province), Deacon John Khoshaba was arrested from his home by members of the Kurdish Democratic Party militia, who are loyal …
Read More »Scholar Warns of the Danger of Dwindling Assyrians, Christians in the Middle East
By Pierre Attallah Beirut – annahar — Is it possible that the future of Christians in Lebanon is better than the fate of Assyrians and Syriac Christians in Iran, Iraq and Turkey? This is a large Question that casts a heavy shadow on all observers of the evolution …
Read More »Bush Administration Assures Democrats on Iraq Intentions
By David Gollust Washington – VOA — The Bush administration said Friday a proposed agreement with Iraq governing the use of U.S. forces in that country would not tie the hands of a future President on Iraq policy. The envisaged deal, to take effect at the beginning of …
Read More »Situation of Iraqi Assyrian Christians Discussed in Nuremberg
Brussels – ACE — On Friday 18th and Saturday 19th January 2008 the Solidarity Group for Tur Abdin & North Iraq organized a conference in Nürnberg, Germany on the plight of Iraqi Christians and the challenges faced by the international community. The Assyria Council of Europe (ACE) …
Read More »Iraq Church Bombed for Second Time
Baghdad – AFP — A car bomb has exploded outside a church in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, slightly injuring two people, in the latest in a wave of attacks on Christian buildings. The booby-trapped car was discovered parked outside the Al-Tahira Chaldean church in the …
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