Monthly Archives: October 2007

The Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The Chaldean patriarch of Baghdad, recently named Iraq’s first cardinal, said Tuesday that rising violence has made life worse for Iraqi Christians since the U.S.-led invasion, but he is optimistic that “peace will prevail.”…

Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki has pledged to protect and support the small Christian minority in Iraq’s spiraling violence.…

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister pledged Saturday to protect and support the Christian minority that has been fleeing the chaos and sectarian violence in the country.…

Baghdad (AsiaNews) – The Iraqi government is committed to protecting and helping the Iraqi Christian community whose members have been emigrating in large…

25.10.2007 18:13 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian and Assyrian organizations in the UK met in the House of Commons on 24 October 2007, following the visit by the Turkish Prime…

Millions of Iraqis have fled their homeland to escape violence, terrorism, extortion and death, said the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church at a Mass in St. Raphael Chaldean Cathedral in Beirut Oct. 21.…

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size The United States embassy in Jordan is failing to process immigrant visas for Iraqi translators and others who worked for coalition forces in Iraq, despite a pledge by…

MOSUL, Iraq, OCT. 23, 2007 (Zenit.org).- One of the Syrian-Catholic priests kidnapped in Iraq for a week said Benedict XVI’s public plea for their release gave them courage in the midst of their situation.…

BEIRUT: He walked across the desert from Baghdad to Beirut without a passport in his hand or a single dinar in his pocket. He joined up with Yusuf al-Khal and Adonis and helped revolutionize Arabic poetry from…

The Foreign Relations Committee of the Peoples Chaldean, Syriac Assyrian, in Denmark Aarhus 22.10.2007 We condemn in the strongest terms the random shelling of our villages in Berwari Bala…

LOS ANGELES, 22 October 2007 – Rosie Malek-Yonan’s latest role in New Line Cinema’s Rendition is opposite Reese Witherspoon as an Egyptian mother, Nuru El-Ibrahimi, whose son, played by Omar…

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Two Catholic priests kidnapped in Iraq have been freed and are in good health, a cleric at the residence of Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly in Baghdad said on Sunday.…

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Ibrahim N., 30, was a translator for U.S. forces in Iraq for nearly three years. But when Islamists posted his name on a “hit list” in a Sunni mosque in Baghdad late last year, he figured it was time for him to leave.…

ISTANBUL, October 19 (Compass Direct News) – Kidnappers have given Iraqi church leaders only 24 more hours to raise ransom money for the release of two priests, a church leader said today.…

Mosul (AsiaNews) – Mgr Basile George Casmoussa, the Syro-Catholic archbishop of Mosul, has criticised head on both the central government and local authorities, guilty…

 (CNA).- The Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Basilios Georges Casmoussa, has called on Christians around the world to help Iraqi Christians. Speaking to the international Catholic charity…

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…

French President Jacques Chirac, greets the patriarch of the Catholic Chaldean Church, Emmanuel III Delly, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. The Chaldean Church is loyal to the pope but does not follow the…

MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) — The kidnappers of two Roman Catholic priests in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have withdrawn an agreement for their release, a Christian group said on Tuesday.…

Angst over two missing priests in Mosul, captors suspend contacts Captors have ceased all contacts after the Church said it could not pay the ransom…