Monthly Archives: April 2009

Baseball was a constant throughout Jeff Moorad’s long, interesting journey from Modesto to running the Padres By Mark Zeigler, Union-Tribune Staff Writer  Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Moorad is introduced to the media at Petco Park on Thursday. – Modesto is a dusty, undistinguished town in the heart of California’s endless Central Valley,…

An Iraqi waiter served tea at an Iraqi restaurant in Amman, Jordan. Six years after Saddam Hussein was ousted by the United States, Iraqis are still present in large numbers in Jordan and Syria, which have struggled with the influx By Ilene R. Prusher Amman, Jordan – Raida Ali was holding out hope for things…

Saints Peter and Paul Church in the south Baghdad district of Dora will reopen on Easter Sunday, nearly two years after being shuttered By Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY BAGHDAD — Easter services are planned at one of Baghdad’s biggest churches for the first time in two years as Iraqi Christians return to homes they had…

By Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY BAGHDAD — Salma Younan remembers the day when an al-Qaeda fighter came to her home and demanded she renounce Christianity and convert to Islam. She told him she would rather die than turn her back on her faith. “My blood is not as precious as my savior’s,” she recalls saying.…

by Independent Press HELP FOR CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ — On Sunday, March 22, a delegation from the Chicago-based Iraqi Christian Relief Council (ICR Council) presented “Save the Flickering Light of Christianity in Iraq” at a community-wide educational and fundraising event hosted by the Presbyterian Church of Madison. Over 50 people…

St. Mar Zaia Assyrian Organization – ܜܘܟܣܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܙܝܥܐ ܕܐܬܘܪܝܐ ASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN REFUGEE AID – PHOENIX, AZ Since the outbreak of the War in Iraq in March of 2003 many Assyrian Christians from Iraq found themselves in an unstable and unlivable condition forcing an overwhelming number of them into refugee status. Thankfully, the United States…

by Saywan Barzani* The objectives of the new US president are the same as those of his predecessor. More than Turkey Iraq could become the real stabilising factor in the region, on the condition however that the goals associated with security and economic development are met. Iran is the greatest challenge for peace.…

Baseball was a constant throughout Jeff Moorad’s long, interesting journey from Modesto to running the Padres By Mark Zeigler Thursday, March 26, 2009  Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Moorad is introduced to the media at…

ASSIST News Service reports that four Iraqi Christians were recently killed in Baghdad and Kirkuk. According to Christian human rights organization International Christian Concern (ICC), the perpetrators are as yet unknown, but Islamic fundamentalists, criminal gangs and other armed groups have been behind attacks…

Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk has warned that the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq could lead to civil war, and redouble the dangers facing the Christian minority. The archbishop made his comments after a week in which 5 more Christians were murdered in Iraqi cities. He observed that “the security situation remains…

By Geoff Ziezulewicz, Stars and Stripes BAGHDAD — Of the roughly 80 million members of the Anglican Church worldwide, the Rev. Andrew White reckons none of them would want his job. Few would voluntarily risk death over six years of war in order to provide the…

Posted by ACN News on Archbishop Sako: “The situation of the Christians in Iraq is a tragedy” Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk has warned that Christianity may soon disappear in Iraq. Christians in this country have suffered heavily over the past five years, he said, during a recent press conference called at the…

By Michelle A. Vu Christian Post Reporter Four Iraqi Christians were murdered within two days by unknown assailants, according to a Christian persecution watchdog group.…

Usama Redha / Los Angeles Times A black banner on a wall in Baghdad announces the killings of two Christian women, Gilawez Nissan Musa and  Hana Ishaq Poulis, who were slain in their home in the Dora neighborhood. Their family believes the attack was meant to drive Christians out.…

By Jeremy Reynalds Correspondent for ASSIST News Service WASHINGTON, D.C. (ANS) — A Christian human rights organization has learned that four Iraqi Christians were recently killed in Baghdad and Kirkuk.…

Believers facing ‘ethno-religious cleansing’ The murder of four Christians across Iraq in just two days is raising concern among churches there that a religious cleansing is returning. According to International Christian Concern, the Christians were attacked and killed in Baghdad and Kirkuk.…

Baghdad, Iraq In a string of killings, certain to raise fears of a new wave of violence, four Assyrian Christians were killed in areas ranging from Kirkuk in Northern Iraq to Baghdad. Sabah Aziz Suliman, 60 was killed in his home in Kirkuk on April 1, at approximately 6Am.…

  Göttingen, 31st March 2009 Dear Mr. President, When you go to Turkey on 5th April 2009 we beg of you earnestly not to leave urgent human rights problems by the wayside. Solving these would, on the one hand, strengthen internationally the position and reputation of Turkey and be, on the other, of benefit to…

By MIDDLE EAST TIMES A recent string of killings in Iraq is raising fear among Iraqi Christians after four Assyrian Christians were killed in areas ranging from Kirkuk in Northern Iraq to the capital, Baghdad.…

By MIDDLE EAST TIMES A recent string of killings in Iraq is raising fear among Iraqi Christians after four Assyrian Christians were killed in areas ranging from Kirkuk in Northern Iraq to the capital, Baghdad.…