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  By Özcan Kaldoyo Vatican – ESNA — The Vatican claims that only the Catholic Church possesses the truth of the Christian faith. As a Catholic I am ashamed over having a spiritual leader that makes such statements. This shows that the Pope and people in his surroundings haven’t learnt …

        ALEPPO – AP — An explosion ripped through an arms depot near the Syrian city of Aleppo on Thursday, killing at least 15 soldiers and wounding 50 others, the state news agency said. The SANA news agency said the blast was caused when high summer temperatures set off …

  Assyrian Democratic Organization’s speech Delivered by political bureau chairman Comrade Bachir Isaac Saadi in commemoration of the golden jubilee of ADO’s foundation   Qamishly- Syria – ADO — Ladies and Gentlemen representatives of the political parties and national forces, representatives of organizations and cultural institutions and social forces representatives …

  By Rayyan al-Shawaf Lebanon – Daily Star — Last month, a Chaldean priest, Ragheed Ganni, and three sub-deacons were murdered by Islamist terrorists in Mosul, Iraq. Before being executed, they were informed that they would be spared on the condition that they converted to Islam. All refused. Ganni was …

    Noorth- Iraq – AINA — On the evening of Wednesday, July 17th, Kurdistan Democratic Party Peshmarga Militia, under the auspices of the ‘Iraqi Armed forces’, shot and killed a teenage farmer in a random act of terrorism. Fadi Nazar Jarjis Habash was riding his farm tractor with his …

  By Fady Noun BAGDAD – ncregister — Blind fanaticism is reaching unprecedented heights in this capital city, and for the Christians who live here and throughout Iraq it is turning into a nightmare. Persecution against Christians is being unleashed in many cities and neighborhoods where Christians and Muslims coexisted …

  By Rod Nordland BAGDAD – Newsweek — He refused to leave Baghdad, even after the day last year when masked Sunni gunmen forced him and eight co-workers to line up against a wall and said, “Say your prayers.” An Assyrian Christian, Rayid Albert closed his eyes and prayed to Jesus …

   Erbil – AKI — Turkish troops armed with artillery bombarded several villages in Iraqi Kurdistan, near the Turkish border, at dawn on Wednesday , according to a well informed source in the area. The source told Adnkronos International (AKI) that “the bombardment involved various villages in the al-Sanadi, Batufa, …

  Margareta Viklund Sweden – AINA — Margareta Viklund, chairwoman of The Swedish committee for Assyrians, visited north Iraq from April 29 to May 7, 2007. Her mission was to assess the needs of Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) woman in the Kurdish dominated areas of north Iraq. …

  By Thomas Grove ISTANBUL – Reuters — Every Sunday the basement chapel of one of Istanbul’s largest churches echoes to the sound of slow chanting in Aramaic, the ancient language spoken by Jesus. The 300 worshippers, all Iraqi Christians, have come here to forget the Muslim sectarian violence that …