Libanon – Al-Mustaqbal — The Lebanese daily Al-Mustaqbal has reported that Arab League Secretary-General Amru Moussa sought to prevent the Lebanese representative at the June 15 Arab foreign ministers’ meeting in Cairo from showing documents and evidence proving Syria’s involvement in the events at Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp, …
Read More »Iraqi Christians Protest for More Protection, Visas
SAN DIEGO – AINA — Several hundred Iraqi Chaldean immigrants and their families converged on the federal building in downtown San Diego yesterday to demand that the United States provide greater protection and more refugee visas for persecuted Iraqi Christians. While all Iraqis have been affected by sectarian …
Read More »Assyrian Delegation Meets EP Members on Iraq, Turkish Genocide
Brussels – ESNA — The Assyrian Genocide Conference, hosted on the 26th of March this year in the EU Parliament, received positive responses from both inside and outside the European Parliament. Yesterday a delegation from the Seyfo Centre, which studies the genocide of Assyrians by Turks in World …
Read More »San Diego Rally to Call Attention to Iraq’s Persecuted Christians
San Diego- AINA — The Chaldean Committee for the Human Rights of the Christians of Iraq will hold a rally on Friday June 15 in San Diego, to call attention to the continuing persecution of Iraq’s Christian community. It is estimated that up to 50% of Iraq’s Christians …
Read More »Iraqi Christians’ Most Urgent Needs According to a Chaldean Priest
By Bashar M. Warda Ankawa – AsiaNews — Growing violence, the climate of persecution felt across the whole of Iraq but especially among Christians, as well as the forced exodus of thousands of families have seriously compromised the Church’s pastoral mission which in some places has disappeared altogether as …
Read More »Iraqi Vicar Denounces Persecution of Christians
Baghdad – AKI — The Iraqi government and the multinational forces are responsible for what is happening to the Christian families in Iraq, the vicar of the Chaldean Catholic church patriarch Shlimon Warduni denounced on Thursday. “There are various armed groups which are putting pressure on Christian families trying …
Read More »Iraqi Christians Are Denied Refuge in Europe
BRUSSELS( Belgium)– AP — Thousands of Iraqi Christians are being denied refuge in Europe while European Union nations argue over who is responsible to help them. With the notable exception of Sweden, Western governments — wary of letting in a seemingly never-ending stream of refugees from various countries …
Read More »Bush Links Syria to Lebanese MP’s Assassination
USA – AFP — US President George W Bush has indirectly accused Syria of involvement in the Beirut blast that killed a Lebanese anti-Syrian MP and nine others. Sixty-five-year-old Lebanese MP Walid Eido, his eldest son Khaled, and eight others were killed in a bomb blast near his …
Read More »Lebanese Lawmaker Killed in Beirut Blast
BEIRUT(Lebanon) – CCN — A member of the Lebanese parliament was killed in an explosion Wednesday outside a Beirut military sports club in what hospital sources called an assassination. Lawmaker Walid Eido, known as a foe of Syrian involvement in Lebanon, his son, Khalid, and two of his …
Read More »Swedish MP Supports Nineveh Plains Administrative Area in Iraq
By Afram Barryakoub Stockholm – AINA — Speaking during a conference on the future of Iraq and the Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs), MP Fredrik Malm from the Liberal Party expressed his full support for the establishment of an administrative area in the Nineveh plain in northern …
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