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        Sweden – AINA — The Swedish social democratic party finally presented a written apology to the Assyrians of Sweden for having demanded from them to take down a banner calling for the acknowledgment for the genocide on Assyrians during a political rally.Assyrians were subjected to a systematic genocide …

  By Paul Dakiki Beirut – AsiaNews — “The Holy Father has granted an honour to His Beatitude, Patriarch Emmanuel Delly, by appointing him cardinal. But the honour is also for the entire Church in Iraq, so tried by these days of persecution, emigration, kidnappings and insecurity,” said Mgr Michel …

        Mosul(Iraq) – AINA — On Saturday, October 13, at 5:00 pm, two Christian priests were kidnapped by unknown armed individuals using civilian cars, in the Hay Al-Thawra neighborhood west of the city of Mosul. The two priests were identified as Father Mazin Esho and Father Piyous Affas. They …

  By Lina Sinjab Damascus – BBC — Seventeen-year-old Bushra is too scared to give her real name. She talks in a low, trembling voice, her face full of fear. “They want to shed my blood, they want to kill me,” she says, as she recounts how she escaped being …

        BEIRUT – AFP — Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has asked for UN and Arab League help in halting what he said was the flow of illegal arms into the country from Syria, according to a letter seen by AFP. In a plea to UN Secretary General Ban …

        Washington – CNN — Turkey has recalled its ambassador to the United States in response to a House resolution that would call the World War I massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces genocide, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Thursday. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs passed the measure …

  By Tracy Dove SIRNAK(Turkey) – AP — Turkey is shelling suspected Kurdish rebel camps across the border in northern Iraq, a newspaper reported Wednesday, but the government appeared unlikely to move toward sending ground troops until next week. A large-scale military incursion would disrupt one of the few relatively …

  By Tracy Dove US – uspolitics.einnews — A sensitive bill is about to go before the US Congress, and it won’t be the first time that this initiative has been struck down by careful congressmen- only this time for the wrong reasons. The word “genocide” is not taken lightly …

  By Desmond Butler WASHINGTON – AP — Turkish and American officials have been pressing lawmakers to reject a measure next week that would declare the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide. On Friday, the issue reached the highest levels as President Bush and Turkish Prime Minister Recep …

  By Bryan Denton Beirut – New York Times — With the Islamist group Hezbollah having brought Lebanese politics to a standstill, the country’s once-dominant Christian community feels under siege and has begun re-establishing militias, training in the hills and stockpiling weapons. Many Lebanese say another civil war — like …