IRAQ: BISHOP NEGOTIATES FOR KIDNAPPED PRIESTS
ISTANBUL, October 15 (Compass Direct News) – An Iraqi bishop said today that he is negotiating for the release of two Christian clergymen kidnapped in Mosul this weekend.…
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ISTANBUL, October 15 (Compass Direct News) – An Iraqi bishop said today that he is negotiating for the release of two Christian clergymen kidnapped in Mosul this weekend.…
Read moreSaturday 13 October Father Mazin Esho and Father Piyous Affas who belong to the Syrian Catholic Church were kidnapped in Mosel and have not yet been released.…
Read morePope Benedict XVI has called for the release of two priests kidnapped in Iraq during his prayers on Sunday. The two clerics of the Syrian-Catholic diocese of Mosul were…
Read moreBy Rebecca Rosen Lum / STAFF WRITER / Contra Costa Times Life in Fallujah was already dangerous before Samiya Bashir, her three daughters and son learned American and Iraqi forces were coming to “clean” their neighborhood.…
Read moreBaghdad, Oct 12, 2007 / 11:03 am (CNA).- Father Rayan Atto, pastor of the Chaldean Catholic parish of Mar Qardagh in Erbil, announced this week a new website has been launched in memory…
Read moreOn Sunday November 4th 2007 the Theatre play ‘ Sara, an ordinary girl’ will be presented as a part of the ongoing project: ‘ Discussing Taboos ‘ among the Assyrian community in the Dutch province of Overijssel. Assyrian families frequently encounter problems that are rarely discussed in the…
Read moreThree Christian sisters, beating their mother’s coffin in grief, wailed and hugged each other at her funeral in Baghdad…
Read moreBy SINAN SALAHEDDIN BAGHDAD (AP) — Guards in a security convoy opened fire on a car at an intersection in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two…
Read moreA special Liturgy marked the start of the new academic year at Babel Catholic College of Theology in Ankawa, the only Catholic college for theology in Iraq run by the Chaldean Catholic…
Read more Author and artist Paul Batou shares his raw thoughts, feelings and memories of Iraq. It is a search for love, life, freedom and peace.…
Read moreDear fellow Ashur T.V. viewers, Due to technical problems with the Appadana satellite, the scheduled interview a couple weeks ago with Rabi Yonadam Kanna was postponed. We are pleased that this…
Read moreThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has launched a renewed attack on the war in Iraq and called for “urgent attention” to stabilise the country.…
Read moreBy James Palmer – BAGHDAD — Nabil Comanny and his family endured the dead bodies in the streets, the roaming kidnap gangs and the continuing power failures.…
Read more(Azzaman) A delegation of Iraqi bishops representing the country’s multifarious denominations has given a tragic picture of conditions in Iraq particularly the capital Baghdad.…
Read moreA special Liturgy marked the start of the new academic year at Babel Catholic College of Theology in Ankawa, the only Catholic college for theology in Iraq run by the Chaldean Catholic…
Read moreBy: Hanna Shamoun / Chicago Since George, now 15 years old, was a little kid his passion was always soccer. George’s loves for soccer increased as he grew up playing…
Read moreCNA During a dinner with 150 Muslim representatives marking the end of Ramadan, Archbishop Louis Sako said, “There is no Iraq without Christians. 
Read moreBy James Palmer – BAGHDAD — Nabil Comanny and his family endured the dead bodies in the streets, the roaming kidnap gangs and the continuing power failures.…
Read moreBAGHDAD, 1 (UPI) — At least a third of Iraq’s Christian community has fled as a result of targeting by Islamic militants, The Washington Times reported Monday.…
Read moreBy PETER FINN / Washington Post MOSCOW — For 50 years, Yevgeny Yivo has worked on Neglinnaya Street performing “emergency surgery,” as he puts it, on the battered and broken shoes of passing Muscovites.…
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