Monthly Archives: January 2010

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 08:58 GMT  Targeting Iraqi Christians in Mosul is ongoing. After killing Chaldean Saad Abdullah Youssef on Sunday, an unemployed married man with four children, police reported that gunmen in a black Opel raided the store of Amjad Hamid Abdul Ahad in Al Sidiq District, northern Mosul, and shot him dead.…

Dear brothers and sisters, Last Friday, June 19, the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the day traditionally dedicated to pray for the sanctification of priests, I had the joy of inaugurating the Year for Priests. The year was proclaimed on the occasion of the…

By Basim Matti   أسامة مهدي Acknowledged by Iraqi militants, including a Syrian belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq, a wing of al Qaeda in Mesopotamia killed Christians in the northern city of Mosul for refusing to pay tribute, which made hundreds of them to escape from them and…

A decision by a council in western Sydney to approve a monument commemorating an alleged Assyrian genocide despite opposition from the Turkish community and Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has been referred to the state of New South Wales’ ombudsman, news reports said.…

Mosul – Ankawa.com – exclusive. Ankawa.com site in Mosul reported that unidentified gunmen attacked at noon today, Sunday the 17th of January 2010, the Christian citizen Saadallah Yousif Jarjease, which was shot and killed after they fired him. The source said, the gunmen fired…

Mosul – Ankawa.com – exclusive. Armed group carried out new crime against one of the sons of our people in the city of Mosul, from which we receive, shortly before now, the news of the assassination of the citizen Amjad Hameed Abdulahad Kagho of 45 years of age. The crime took place near…

Cold-blooded execution of a 52-year-old Syrian Catholic, married and father of two daughters. Local sources complain: a new attack to push the Christians toward the plain of Nineveh. Yesterday, Msgr. Emil Shimoun Nona, the new archbishop of Mosul, made his entry into the diocese. Mosul – Another attack against the Christian community in Mosul, while…

By: Robert Ewan  Historical Overview The Chaldeans are a continuation of all the indigenous people of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq); they are amongst the early Christians of the world. They embraced Christianity at the hands of St. Thomas the apostle in his journey to India during the…

ERIK JENSEN Diplomatic row . . . a model of the controversial sculpture marking the contested Assyrian genocide, with its artist, Lewis Batros. Photo: Dallas Kilponen THE actions of Fairfield Council have been referred to the NSW Ombudsman after it approved a monument to the contested World War I Assyrian genocide last month,…

CHANTS FROM THE EAST: The Liturgical Music of the Assyrian Church of the East CDs issued in May, 2009 The present collection of liturgical chants and hymns of the Assyrian Church of the East is of interest not only to the modern enthusiast of ecclesiastical musicology but also to the annoncment.pdf demo_mp4.mp4…

 Lingering hopes that the last hostage Alan McMenemy might still be alive have ended with the latest dispatch from unofficial negotiator, the Anglican cleric and vicar of Baghdad Canon Andrew White. After being told by the Charity Commission to cease his involvement in hostage situations, which he did as president of of the Foundation…

Iraqi refugees. (Photo: Chaldean Federation of America) By Martina Guzmán, FI2W contributor Prior to 2006, strict immigration policies didn’t allow refugees fleeing the violence in Iraq to enter the United States. In 2007, a more lenient “open door” policy was implemented, allowing thousands of Iraqis –15,000 in 2009 alone– to settle in the…

THE 4.5m-high monument for Assyrian victims of genocide is a work of art for Lewis Batros. The Bossley Park sculptor designed the memorial, which has been approved by Fairfield Council for the park on the corner of Elizabeth Drive and Smithfield Rd.…

Ankawa.com–Mosul–Exclusive Unknown gunmen assassinated late Monday, 11/01/2010, one of the son of our…

FULYA ÖZERKAN ANKARA/MARDIN – Hürriyet Daily News Mardin and Diyarbakır Archbishop Saliba Özmen has met with FM Ahmet DavutoÄŸlu in Mardin over the weekend. ‘The foreign minister has approached our needs positively. I am optimistic that we’ll resolve our problems together,’ Özmen tells the Daily News…

FULYA ÖZERKAN MARDIN – Hürriyet Daily News Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoÄŸlu on his Mardin visit. (DHA) Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoÄŸlu toured the southeastern city of Mardin as part of a brand-new strategy to explain Turkey’s foreign policy throughout the country, especially in long-neglected Anatolia.…

BY: ROBERT EWAN Bishop Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf was the second Roman Catholic bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Cairo, Egypt.Born in Cairo on 5th October 1940.Since his early days of childhood he felt the call to priesthood running within his veins. He attended the Jesuit-run primary school of the Holly Family and after completing…

Dear Supporter We are delighted to be able to send you pictures taken from the recent Assyrian Church of the East Relief Organisation (ACERO) Children’s New Year Party, which was held in Damascus, Syria on Saturday 2 January 2010.…

In a statement on Dec. 23, Federico Lombardi, S.J., argued that Jewish groups should not see Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to advance the sainthood cause of Pope Pius XII as a “hostile act.” • The FBI’s report on hate crime statistics for 2008, released in late November, showed that the majority of hate crimes in…

Fraud, discrimination and politicization of NGOs are among the irregularities the Swedish Radio has found when we examined the EU’s financial support to Turkey. The results of the survey is being broadcasted starting 11th of January.…