Monthly Archives: June 2008

ISTANBUL – TDN with wire dispatches The Housing Development Administration of Turkey, or TOKÄ°, has plans to build villa type houses in the southeastern province of Mardin in order to encourage the return of Syriacs, news agencies reported Wednesday.…

The human rights organization IRAC from United States in co-operation with one of the big organizations specialized in international law is formulating a legal file to compensate the emigrants from Christian villages.…

Julie Szego IRAQI Christians George Eshaq and Romel Moshi bring a message of stubborn optimism to their exiled compatriots in Australia. “We tell them, ‘Keep your connection with your people…

by Joe Kohn of The Michigan Catholic Fr. Clarence Burbey, SJ, blesses Esho Putus and his wife, a couple who fled their home in Iraq to seek safety in Jordan. The Chaldean Federation of America has started a…

By ANDREW E. KRAMER MOSUL, Iraq — As priests do everywhere, Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, the leader of the Chaldean Catholics in this ancient city, gathered alms at Sunday Mass. But for years the money, a crumpled pile of multicolored Iraqi dinars, went into an envelope…

By SPIEGEL Staff The ongoing terror in Iraq is driving an increasing number of refugees to Europe. Now the EU is being forced to make some tough decisions: Who will be allowed to stay in Europe, and will Iraqi Christians have greater chances here than Muslims?…

THE shortest distance between England and France across the Channel is about 32kilometres. Next month I will attempt to swim across those open waters to raise money for The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.…

You are cordially invited to attend the commemoration of the Assyrian Genocide of 1915. This event will be held in Switserland at the “Mt. Rigi Mountain” on Sonday, July 6, 2008.…

By Robin Harris In Iraq the “surge” is working, but at the same time the Iraqi Christian community is dying. Hardly anyone seems to know, and those who know don’t seem to care. In former times, the violent persecution of Christians in a country effectively under the…

By Anthony Elghossain /Daily Star staff BEIRUT: Miraculous, perhaps. Tens of thousands of Lebanese gathered in Martyrs Square in Downtown Beirut on Sunday to witness the beatification of Yaaqoub Haddad, the late Capuchin priest who gained fame for his prolific work in founding an…

Cairo, Jun 18, 2008 / 05:09 pm (CNA).- Fire destroyed a Coptic Catholic church in the Egyptian town of Kafr el Sheij this week, coming just three weeks after another church was burned in the country because of conflicts between Christians and Muslims.…

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 20, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Here is a statement regarding an informal meeting held in the United States between representatives of the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East, as a follow-up to Assyrian Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV’s visit to Benedict XVI one year ago.…

Paris, 19 June (AKI) – European Union states that have not yet ratified the European reform treaty should press ahead and do so, France’s immigration minister Brice Hortefeux, told Adnkronos International (AKI).…

Vatican, Jun. 19, 2008 (CWNews.com) – The ancient Christian communities of the Middle East must be ” supported by the entire Catholic Church,” Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) said in a June 19 talk to participants in an annual conference of ROACO, the Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches.…

[Office of Ecumenical Relations] A recent festive Eucharist honored the legacy of the retired Primate of the Mar Thoma Church, the Most Rev. Dr. Philipose Mar Chrysostom and marked the first official visit to the U.S. of his recently consecrated…

London, Jun 19, 2008 / 06:26 pm (CNA).- In a Mass celebrated on June 16 at the Cathedral of Westminster, the president of the Committee on External Affairs of the Bishops’ Conference of…

Situation of Iraqi Christians discussed in EU Parliament Ararat News –Publishing (ANP) – Roni Alasor, 15/6/2008 / Brussels – Wednesday 11 June, the European Parliament was once again a warm venue for discussing the current humanitarian…

Centre of Eastern and Orthodox Christianity Dept. for the Study of Religions School of Oriental and African Studies…

Sabri Atman, representative of the Seyfo Center, has been invited to Greece to lecture about Seyfo- the genocide on Assyrians during the First World War. Apart from Assyrians and Armenians, also Greeks were murdered during Seyfo.…

Amnesty International has called on Germany to take in more Iraqi refugees, regardless of any EU-level decisions on the issue. On Sunday, the human rights organization accused the world’s richest nations of…