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Beirut – Naharnet — Intra-Maronite squabbling have dominated the political theater in Lebanon recently, reflecting a competition on who represents Lebanon’s Christians and defends their interests. The row, pitting mainly Gen. Michel Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement and Samir Geagea’s Lebanese Forces, followed a statement by Maronite Bishops accusing …
Read More »Explosives Found in Truck Heading From Syria to Iraq
BAGHDAD – AP — Iraqi security forces have seized 200 explosive belts from a truck they say crossed into Iraq from Syria today. That word comes from a spokesman for the Interior Ministry. The driver of the truck is being held for questioning. Iraq’s government and U-S authorities …
Read More »The World’s Richest Man is a Product of the Turkish Genocide of Assyrians
Beirut – ESNA — Carlos Slim Helú has poked Bill Gates from the crown as the richest man in the world. Carlos Slim Helú is Assyrian from Lebanon and belongs to the maronitic church. He was born in Mexico January 28th 1940. His father, Julián Slim Haddad Aglamaz …
Read More »Egyptian Christian Escapes Deportation
Egypt – WorldNetDaily — An Egyptian Christian will remain in the United States for now, because even though he may have no such right, “he most assuredly has a right not to be tortured,” a federal court ruled. The decision came in the case of Sameh Khouzam, 38, …
Read More »Syria Hands Over Stolen Car in Gemayel’s Assassination to Lebanon
Judit Neurink Beirut – Naharnet — Syria on Monday had reportedly handed over to Lebanon the stolen car used in the Nov. 2006 assassination of Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel. The daily As Safir, citing a well-informed security source, said the broken down Honda VRC was found abandoned on the …
Read More »Assyrian-Chaldean Women Meet to Discuss the Situation in Iraq
By Cassie Maher Australia – starnewsgroup — Assyrian-Chaldean migrants of Hume say they are living under a cloud of uncertainty and dread as their relatives in Iraq are raped, murdered and kidnapped by Islamic extremists. Edwina Dinkha, an Assyrian community leader, said the conflict was hitting close to home …
Read More »Fear of Muslims Forced Elderly Assyrian Couple to Stay Home, Die
Dora(Baghdad)- ana-ashur — Hours after his wife Laila Yacoub Hermis, 68, passed away, an acute psychological trauma killed George Yousif Jajjo aged 74. The Assyrian couple were living alone besieged in their home due to the imposed blockade on Christians by terrorist groups. The Assyrian couple lived in …
Read More »FINALLY!! SWEDEN HAS PASSED A HISTORICAL RESOLUTION
By Nuri Kino Sweden- ESNA — Yesterday the Swedish Migration Board passed a historical resolution regarding refugees from Iraq seeking asylum. For several years there have been reports of ethnic and religious persecution against non-Muslims in Iraq, without the surrounding world understanding the full extent of it. The Swedish …
Read More »Christian Assyrians Demand Protection, Take to the Streets Around the Globe
By Afram Barryakoub US- Europ- AINA — A string of demonstrations have been witnessed around the world this summer. The common denominator has been the persecution of the Christian Assyrians (also called Chaldeans and Syriacs) in Iraq. Thousands of Assyrians, inspired by the first demonstration by the community in …
Read More »Danish Group Issues Statement on the Persecution of Assyrians in Iraq
Denmark – AINA — A group calling itself “Representatives for the Iraqi Christians in Denmark” has issued the following press release concerning the ongoing persecution of the Christian Assyrians in Iraq: We, on behalf of the representatives of Christian members of the Eastern churches in Denmark, do strongly condemn …
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