Monthly Archives: June 2009

Nimrud Baitu Youkhana urges all Iraq to emulate religious protections of the KRG Washington, US (KRG.org) – Mr Nimrud Baito Youkhana, the Minister for Tourism in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and…

The prelates stress the desire to “build a future in the name of national reconciliation.” “Ethnic and confessional” divisions remain and the threat of “external elements” that want to feed the chaos. In Mosul tensions between Sunnis and Kurds ongoing; reports from the capital say “the Iraqi army is not ready to take control.”…

Ankawa.com – Baghdeda A car bomb explosion occurred just before noon on Monday the 29th of June 2009 in a car park near the general hospital of Al-Hamdania.   According to Ankawa.com correspondent, the explosion caused the killing of eight people and wounding another three including three children.…

By Peter Costantini ~ Seattle, Washington Wars often drive people from their homes. But in Iraq, a discretionary war, launched through deception by a rogue administration in search of good targets for “shock and awe”, produced refugees with industrial efficiency.…

Written by Rudi Stettner One of Iraq’s most ancient religious minorities is about to close the books on its history in Iraq. According to the Society for Threatened Peoples, the Mandaean community in Iraq, which had numbered about 30,000 people a few years ago is now down to a…

  A supporter of the Kurdistani List holds a poster of the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani, Leaders of PUK and KDP, during an electoral campaign ceremony in Erbil, June 24. GLOBE PHOTO/Safin Hamed The Kurdish Globe…

ISTANBUL – Through her camera lens Italian native Delizia Flaccavento explores the plight of Iraqi immigrants who have fled to Turkey. In a project this winter the photojournalist took over 6,000 photos of the Chaldean Christian Iraqi community in Turkey raising awareness on the ‘other victims’ of the Iraqi War.…

Local Iranian supporters take to the streets BY ANDREA GOODWIN Hundreds of local Iranians and Americans of Iranian descent showed their support for friends and family still in Iran on Thursday and Friday with peaceful rallies. Groups of…

ANKARA – A Syriac Christian monastery in the Eastern Province of Mardin lost its legal battle Wednesday to overturn a Forestry Department decision to claim part of its land, with community representatives vowing to file an appeal. The boundaries around Mor Gabriel, located in the Midyat region, and its surrounding…

Midyat, Turkey, Wednesday 24 June, 2009 Midyat, Turkey – In an as to nis hing verd ict, the S yriac U nivers al Alliance (S U A), a reco gniz ed NG O at the U nited N atio ns that repres ents the Aram ean (S yriac) peo ple w o rld wid e,…

Ankawa.com-Arbil-Parliament building   In an important development expected to receive the acceptance of Chaldeans, Syriacs and Assyrians who prefer the united naming, Kurdistan Regional Parliament ratificated today on the draft constitution of the region by confirming the united naming without separation by comma or ANDS between the names( Chaldeans…

By Carmen Blanco – Catholic News Service Thursday, 25 June 2009 Despite growing numbers of Iraqi Christians fleeing their country to escape the violence and persecution, an Iraqi Dominican nun says she will remain in her country. Dominican Sister Maria Hanna of Mosul, Iraq, speaks at the U.S. Conference of…

This year, I’ll be participating in a very special event called the Breast Cancer 3-Day. I’ll walk 60 miles over the course of three days with thousands of other women and men. The net proceeds will support breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment through Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the National Philanthropic…

Ankawa.com / Mosul A number of families living in a building belongs to the Latine church located in Al-Saa quarter of Mosul city expressed their fears from targeting the building by explosion because it is used by local police as guarding point. Several families expressed that fears to the correspondent of Ankawa.com and they said…

MARDIN – The fourth film festival of the southeastern city of Mardin, SineMardin, kicked off Saturday night at a ceremony held at the historical Erdoba Mansion. The ceremony hosted guests from Sweden, Syria and the US. ’Even though we are tired when the festival ends each year, we can’t turn our back on Mardin ,’…

ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) — Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan on Wednesday passed a new constitution in which it laid claim to the disputed oil-rich province of Kirkuk, a move likely to increase ethnic tension. The text, which also said that areas within Nineveh and Diyala provinces were part of…

ANKARA -A Midyat court will deliver its verdict today about a land dispute between a 1,600-year-old monastery and locals of a southeastern Anatolian town home to around 3,000 Syriacs. The ruling is expected to be the final phase of a long-running court process. Yılmaz…

digg Huffpost – stumble reddit del.ico.us ShareThis Read More: James Linzey, Jim Ammerman, In 2008, Ammerman implied that four presidential candidates should be “arrested, quickly tried and hanged” for not voting to designate English America’s official…

SOCIETY FOR THREATENED PEOPLES  PRESS RELEASE Göttingen/Frankfurt a. M., 22.06.2009 IRAN: Representatives of non-Persian ethnic groups speak of electoral  fraud and warn of massacres While the Iranian security forces proceed with relentless callousness…

In his first appearance after absence of more than six months, Ankawa.com received short report from Ishtar channel about the return of Sarkis Aghajan to the homeland. He received a delegation from Ishtar channel this morning, Sunday the 21st of June, in his place in Ankawa city.…