Monthly Archives: January 2009

On the 26th January 2009 .Chaldean Women Association in Victoria / Australia will Organise an excursion for Chaldean women and their families . The excursion will be to Fun Fields Park The cost of the bus is $15.00 per adult and $10.00 per child . Chidren under 3 years are free for both bus seat…

ISTANBUL – Slain Turkish- Armenian journalist Hrant Dink will be commemorated on the second anniversary of his murder. A group who called themselves “Hrant’s Friends” have long been calling for people to gather in front of the weekly multilingual newspaper Agos in central ÅžiÅŸli, where Dink was killed.…

The 36-year-old Chourik Bagrad was shot multiple times in the head, while another Christian was kidnapped on New Years Eve. The lifeless body of a young Christian was found yesterday by the army in Mosul (Northern Iraq). The abandoned body uncovered in a street in the east of the city was that of 36 year…

Pope Benedict XVI The Pope says Iran should work for peace in the Middle East, calling for the expansion of ties between Iran and the Catholic Church. “The Catholic Church never ceases to encourage all those who have at heart the common good and peace between nations,” the Pope said in a meeting with Iranian…

Violence against Christians continues in Mosul. One young man has been found dead of multiple gunshot wounds; another Christian has been released by kidnappers who held and tortured him until relatives paid a hefty ransom. Both religious extremists and organized criminals prey on the Christian minority in Mosul: a city that one official describes as…

Environmentalists urge Iran’s Christian Armenians to go artificial and save a real Christmas tree. By Maryam Jalali in Tehran Every day, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and many senior Iranian officials of Iran go past Tehran’s oldest flower shop to reach the presidential Palace. Around Christmas, the window display normally has fir trees on sale.…

Source: Reuters  * MOSUL – Gunmen burst into a house and opened fire in Mosul, 390 km (290 miles) north of Baghdad, killing one woman and wounding two other people, police said.…

36-year old Chourik Bagrad, was massacred with multiple gunshot wounds to the head. Another believer was kidnapped New Years eve: he was released on payment of a ransom of 50 thousand dollars. AsiaNews sources relay that Mosul is a “volcano about to explode”.…

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI encouraged Iran’s tiny Catholic communities to be patient and persistent as they try to improve relations with the government and ensure a continued Christian presence in the Islamic republic.…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI said Friday that Iran should work for peace in the Middle East and urged Catholics in the country not to emigrate and to cooperate with the Islamic regime.…

by Mavi Zambak In Istanbul as well as Ankara the country’s various Christian communities are used to small but tangible acts of solidarity and communion. In the capital’s only parish church, run by the Jesuits, ecumenism is the stuff of everyday life.…

Mosul, 16 Jan. (AKI) – An Iraqi army soldier was injured on Friday in a blast that targeted an army convoy in the northern city of Mosul, a security source told the Voices of Iraq news agency. “An improvised explosive device went off on Friday targeting a convoy…of the Iraqi army in the al-Shifaa neighbourhood…

Chaldean Federation of America   www.chaldeanfederation.org   30777 Northwestern Hwy. #300, Farmington Hills, MI 48334   Phone: 248-851-3023 Fax: 248-851-9551 Contact: Joseph T. Kassab, Executive Director January 12, 2009…

Vatican City, (CNA).- The Holy Father has called a Synod of bishops from the Syriac Catholic Church to take place in Rome January 17 – 23 in order to elect a new Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians and of All the East.…

Lobby for the Minorities of Iraq eilian@nant.wanadoo.co.uk   We are pleased that in yesterday’s debate in the House of Commons the plight of Iraqi Minorities was brought up by Andrew Pelling MP. Our representations to MPs that Britain has a great responsibility to Iraqi Monorities was reflected in the speech.…

U.S. EMBASSY – BAGHDAD News Release For Immediate Release January 13, 2009 2009/05 JOINT STATEMENT Inaugural Meeting of the Iraqi-U.S. Higher Coordination Committee Following is the joint statement issued by the United States and the Government of Iraq following the inaugural January 13, 2009 meeting of the Iraqi-U.S. Higher Coordination Committee:…

Shagun Randhawa Mokhtar Lamani, a senior visiting fellow at CIGI reported that the Iraqi minorty population is facing possible extinction due to �ethnic cleansing�. Lamani intended to display the troubles that some Iraqi people have faced since the war began in 2003…

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Iran poses a significant threat to Iraq, but security has greatly improved in the war-ravaged country, according to a Pentagon report. Iraqi soldiers parade in Kirkuk on January 10. The Pentagon credits better forces for improved security.…

By ALISSA J. RUBIN and SAM DAGHER BAGHDAD — A little more than two weeks before Iraq’s provincial elections, there is widening anger that the published version of the election law has only a weak provision to set aside seats for women…

It is difficult to find words to express our gratitude for the many comforting words we have received during this time of mourning for our departed friend, colleague, mentor, and passionate Assyrian activist, the late Senator John J. Nimrod (Ret.).…