Monthly Archives: July 2009

The dead and most of the wounded from attack on St. Mary, the church where Mgr. Sleimon Wardouni, Chaldean Patriarchal Vicar, officiates. Other churches suffered minor damage. The hand of Al Qaeda to avenge the “martyr of the veil” Baghdad (AsiaNews) – A series of car bombs targeted seven Chaldean and Orthodox churches of Baghdad…

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb exploded near a church as worshippers left Sunday Mass, killing at least four civilians and injuring 18 in one of several attacks on Iraq’s beleaguered Christian minority.…

At least four people were killed on Sunday and 32 were wounded in a wave of bomb attacks targeting churches in Baghdad, a security official said. The four dead, all Christians, died when a car bomb exploded near the Notre Dame church in Palestine Street in the east of the capital at around 7:00 pm…

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi military on Sunday predicted that insurgent attacks, though declining, could continue for a few years, raising the prospect of militant violence after the scheduled withdrawal of all U.S. troops by the end of 2011.…

From Jomana Karadsheh CNN BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — At least four people were killed and 32 wounded as six Baghdad-area churches were bombed within 24 hours, officials told CNN. Family members of Rizko Aziz Nissan grieve before his funeral in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Sunday.…

A car bomb exploded near a church on eastern Baghdad`s Palestine Street, killing one person and wounding 14. Bombs exploded outside four Christian churches across Baghdad on Sunday, killing one person and wounding more than 20, Iraqi police said. A car bomb exploded near a church on eastern Baghdad’s Palestine Street, killing one person and…

The situation is improving but ethnic and confessional divisions remain; they are an obstacle on the path of peace. Three attacks hit northern Iraq and the capital, killing 40 and wounding another 80. Tomorrow a group of 19 children will celebrate their first communion. The archbishop of Kirkuk calls on political leaders to show “political…

But artifacts continue to be stolen and damaged, UNESCO charges A decorated nail from 2100 BC that would have been used to anchor a building’s foundations to the ground is shown Thursday in the Netherlands. (Dutch Education, Culture and Science Ministry/Associated Press)The Dutch government returned 69 artifacts, discovered to have been stolen from Iraq, to…

, (Reuters) – Two car bombs exploded within minutes of one another in the Iraqi city of Mosul, killing nine people and wounding 29, police said. The first bomb went off in a residential area of northern Mosul, home to minority Shabaks, wounding seven people, police said.…

The Associated Press TURLOCK, Calif.—Surveillance video shows a man smashing and stealing a statue of the Virgin Mary that adorned a fountain outside a Turlock church. The footage recorded on the grounds of St. Thomas Assyrian-Chaldean Catholic Church on Saturday night catches a man climbing the fountain’s steps, and then throwing the porcelain centerpiece to…

Ankawa.com/exclusive An official source of the Iraqi Army reported that forces from the second squad arrested four days ago seven persons suspected in their involvement in the last attack in Baghdeda.   The source added, Who didn’t want to mention his name about the report to Ankawa.…

Posted by ACN News on Board Administrator Iraq When the Word of God takes precedence over the “Occupation of Iraq” During a visit to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)’s head office, Father Pios Affas of the Syrian Catholic Church, also director of the Biblical Center of Mosul, was interviewed by Mario Bard.…