Monthly Archives: April 2008

Please join The Chaldean Assyrian Syriac Council of America Center for Religious Freedom of the Hudson Institute Christian Solidarity International…

By Carol Glatz ROME (CNS) — The United States’ lack of concrete plans to help Iraq and a weak Iraqi government only foment insecurity and push Iraqi citizens to flee the country, said the Chaldean Catholic Church’s representative to the Vatican.…

By Walter Pincus / Washington Post Staff Writer Two leading Democratic senators have called for the Bush administration to appoint a senior official to coordinate overall U.S. policy for the more than 2 million refugees…

Whether it’s al-Qaeda’s murderers in Iraq, or Islamist prejudice in other parts of the Arab world, the defense of minorities in the Arab world must not be left only to the Vatican or Western church leaders. We then encourage the dangerous notion that…

Come to Washington DC this April to urge Congress to respond to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our time. Millions of Iraqis have been uprooted by violence, including hundreds of…

Fadi Kamal Yousif /Ankawa.com – Baghdad The funeral and burial ceremony of the clergyman Yousif Adel Aboudi was held today Sunday 6/4/2008 from his house in Hay Al-Wahda area to Saint Peter and Polaus Cathedral for Syrian Orthodox .…

Sun Apr 6, 2008 6:56pm IST/ By Aws Qusay BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Scores of grieving Christians packed a Baghdad church on Sunday for the funeral mass of a priest slain by gunmen in the latest attack on a minority community that has become a target in Iraq’s sectarian violence.…

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Benedict lamented on Sunday the killing of an Iraqi priest during a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, the latest attack on Iraq’s Christian community.…

Christians are being severely persecuted in Iraq. German churches are now urging the government to be generous in granting them asylum – and have encountered broad support.…

ankawa.com/ News from Baghdad assured the assassination of the clergyman Yousif Adel Aboudi, the priest of Saint Soyerious Antaki church in Baghdad. The assassination took place in the residential buildings area in Zayouna by unknown…

Authorities in Iraq say a Christian priest has been killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad Saturday. Youssef Adel was leaving his house in central Baghdad when a group of men in a speeding car opened fire as they drove past.…

BERLIN, April 4 (UPI) — Churches in Germany are campaigning for sanctuary in the country for Iraqi Christians, who face persecution from both Sunnis and Shiites in their home country.…

Stephen J. Carrera / For The Times Robert DeKelaita leaves immigration court in Chicago with Anaam Merza Khoshaba, an Iraqi Christian who was left in legal limbo after her husband divorced her.…

INVITATION IRAQ POLICY FORUM: Responding to the Humanitarian Situation Facing Iraqis Date: Monday, April 14, 2008 (8:30 am – 6 pm) Venue: Jack Morton Auditorium, George Washington University (GW) Address: 805 21st Street NW (corner of 21st and H), Washington, D.C.…

By Mandy Clark / Sodertalje, Sweden Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, more than four million Iraqis have fled their homes. About half of them left the country, altogether. Most of these refugees remain in neighboring…

Turkey will move to change an anti-free speech penal code article as soon as Parliament finishes its work on a social security reform bill that is currently under discussion, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan said yesterday.…

Rome (AsiaNews) – Iraqi Christians have brought their silent marches to the West, calling for justice and an end to the persecution visited upon them daily in their homeland.…

Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of my colleagues, the Board members of the Assyrian Universal Alliance – Australia chapter, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this annual celebration.…

SWEDEN has given shelter to about 100,000 Iraqis, 40,000 of them since the invasion of their country in 2003 – and that is far more than any other western country, including the United States.…

Bishop Kenney to visit Christians in Iraq Bishop William Kenney, auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham and Spokesman on European Affairs for the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales is planning to visit Northern Iraq from 11-16 April, writes Peter Jennings.…