Monthly Archives: April 2010

Detroit – Prescreening Process Going on Now TROY, MICH. April 13 2010 —The Michigan chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (MI-AILA) will present Citizenship Day 2010, a workshop providing assistance to non-U.S. citizen state residents eligible to apply for U.S.…

An Iraqi-born priest in Los Angeles has been named to head the Syrian Catholic Church in the United States, a small Eastern Rite sect affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.…

 Syria increases pressure on language and culture of the Assyrian  Aramaic Christians – Performance of the musician Habib Mousa forbidden Syria is according to information received by the Society for  Threatened Peoples -STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV)…

Stockholm (AINA) — On Thursday, April 8, 3,000 Iraqi refugee cases were appealed to the Swedish Migration Board. For weeks Swedish and Assyrian churches have had their facilities open for Iraqi refugees hiding from the Swedish police. In a joined…

Sydney – 11 April, 2010 Work is underway to erect the Assyrian genocide monument at Bonnyrigg Park; leaders of the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) visited the location where the artist Louis Petros is working on the monument. The delegation was pleased with the…

By John Pontifex A LEADING archbishop has spoken of renewed hopes for the survival of Christianity in one of Iraq’s most troubled regions after Easter celebrations passed off peacefully – with increased numbers attending the services. (Archbishop Amil Nona of Mosul)…

By Benjamin Bidder, Daniel Steinvorth and Bernhard Zand  AP/ Armenian National ArchivesThe month of April marks the 95th anniversary of the start of the Armenian genocide. An unusual television documentary shows what motivated the murderers and why Germany, and other countries, remained silent.…

“SCULPTUROR” MAY 1 & 2, 2010 Dankha Zomaya was born in 1960 in Syria. His studies include a Degree in “Fine Arts” from the University of Damascus.…

Half the refugees fleeing Iraq are Christian, dramatically reducing a presence that pre-dates Islam. Edward Stourton reports By Edward Stourton Fr Rayan Paulos Atto showed me an elaborately decorated bronze and glass case…

TO: ALL MY BELOVED ASSYRIANS AROUND THE WORLD AND TO ALL BROTHERS AND SISTER IN CHRIST. MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Here is the true date of the Assyrians New year that our ancestors celebrate for…

Iranian authorities temporarily freed a pastor after keeping him in prison for 54 days. Pastor Wilson Issavi of Assyrian Evangelical Church in Kermanshah, a remote city in Western Iran, was freed on bail Sunday evening, reported the Farsi Christian News…

AINA) — The recognition of the genocide in 1915 from the Swedish parliament and the U.S. Foreign Affairs Committee gives courage to civilian forces in Turkey. At the same time Carl Bildt and Fredrik Reinfeldt gave a shameless apology of the Swedish…

AINA) — The Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket) has admitted that Christian Iraqis, most of them Assyrians, who had been denied asylum may have received erroneous judgments, and has requested help from ten Assyrian churches in…

By: Helen Talia, Chicago www.helentalia.com March 2010 Yousef Emad Dakho is a three and one half year-old child from Iraq whose family recently became refugees in neighboring Jordan, like many other Iraqi families, hoping to re-establish home away from home.…