Monthly Archives: March 2010

By: Weekly Staff On March 11, the Swedish parliament recognized the Armenian Genocide. WASHINGTON—Over strident opposition from the Turkish Government, the Swedish Parliament, today, adopted a resolution recognizing the murder and…

The Swedish parliament is the first in the world to acknowledge the Turkish genocide on Assyrians. The historical decision was taken after a long debate in the parliament on Thursday. It was an extremely narrow win as 131 parliamentarians voted for and…

Killings of Iraqi Christians in the northern city of Mosul have sparked an exodus from the Arab-controlled city to Kurdish areas. The number of Iraqi Christians attacked has spiked in the run-up to elections, scheduled for Sunday.…

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey recalled its ambassador to Sweden on Thursday and canceled an upcoming summit between the countries after the Swedish parliament branded the World War One killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces genocide.…

STOCKHOLM, March 11 (Itar-Tass) – Swedish parliament has adopted a resolution that recognizes the genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Pontic Greeks in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.…

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today the Parliament of Sweden will vote the recognition the Armenian Genocide , the genocides of Assyrians and Pontic Greeks in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The opposition opposes the recognition.…

Since 2003, the Mandaeans have become the target of a sustained and violent campaign by insurgents and militia extremists. Accounts of murders, rapes, kidnappings, forced conversions and financial expropriation committed against…

We have the scandal of a nation that has helped create the refugees then turn its back on them when they need help. We have a moral duty to help and we have refused to do so. We should be ashamed.” Lord Norman Fowler Feb 2009…

 This week, on the 8th March, Iraqi Christians confronted Rt Hon. David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary who had given evidence, outside the Iraq Inquiry at Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, with banners : ” Where is the Safe Haven for…

 Ankawa.com – Exclusive Observers for the Iraqi elections, that took place on Sunday the 7th of March 2010, described the participation of Christian inside and outside Iraq as “weak”. The results of the unofficial final count indicated the win of two lists: Al-Rafedain 389 of the…

BY BEN SCHMITT ederal prosecutors say they want ex-Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers to get “substantial” prison time when a judge sentences her Wednesday.…

 in Our Lady of Lebanon-Harissa More than 750 Christians were martyred because of betrayal in Iraq that is still bleeding carrying the Cross of the East, the cradle of Christianity. In front of this hard reality, the Episcopal Commission for Media , along with Tele Lumiere and Noursat,…

By Troy Anderson, Staff Writer Hoping this weekend’s elections in Iraq will strengthen the fledgling democracy, about 40 local residents with Iraqi ties gathered Saturday in North Hollywood to hop into vans so they could cast votes in their homeland’s elections.…

BY NIRAJ WARIKOO His index finger stained purple to prove he voted, Sam Yono beamed Friday as he slipped his ballot into a box at a polling site in Warren. “It’s for a better future,” the Waterford businessman said afterward.…

 EST Damaris Kremida Political tensions ahead of parliamentary elections in Iraq on Sunday have left at least eight Chaldean Christians dead in the last three weeks and hundreds of families fleeing Mosul.…

Rome, Italy, Mar 5, 2010 / 11:05 pm (CNA).- With elections just days away, and after weeks of violence by Muslim extremists that have left numerous Christians dead, the Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad, Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, called on “all Iraqis to cast their votes for the good of Iraq.”…

In the seven years since the Iraq War was launched, 2,000 Christians have been murdered and 600,000 have fled Iraq, according to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. 44% of Iraqi refugees are Christians,…

by Gerald Butt Middle East Correspondent Nuns in Rome protesting © not advert Protests against Iraqi attacks: left: Iraqi nuns with olive branches in Mosul; below: a banner in St Peter’s Square, Rome, last Sunday AP…

 By Taylor Luck AMMAN – Iraqis across Jordan are expected to head to the polls this weekend in the country’s second election since the US-led invasion in 2003.…

by Spero News See all articles by this author The situation is difficult. But Iraqi Christians do not lose hope and are helping to build the new Iraq. The country and Iraqi society at large are more mature than in the election four years ago. Iraqi priest Fr. Bashar Warda, Rector of St. Peter Chaldean…