Monthly Archives: May 2010

BY PATRICIA ANSTETT and STEVE NEAVLING FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS Nick Najjar waited 23 years to see his sister freed from the violence of Iraq. Gliding down the escalator at Metro Airport last month, 54-year-old Intesar Najjar…

By STEVE NEAVLING FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER The gentle brown eyes of the Rev. Basel Yaldo turn sad when he recalls the five terrorists who beat and kidnapped him for three days in Iraq.…

Washington, D.C. (May 12, 2010) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the election results for five Christian seats in the Iraqi parliament will be further delayed.…

Ankawa.com – Mosul – Exclusive Not over the repercussions of the heinous crime that targeted Baghdeeda University students, another new series of targeting other segment of Christians started. This…

Ankawa.com- Erbil–Exclusive. Sources of Ankawa.com reported to the site in Erbil that Sandy Shabib Hadi, one of the students wounded by the criminal attack that targeted the buses carrying Baghdeeda students, died in Erbil on Monday evening, 10th May 2010, as a result of her injuries.…

Ankawa.com – Baghdeeda – Exclusive In a peaceful and angry demonstration, hundreds of Baghdeeda students (males and females) expressed their denunciation of the heinous crime against them and their colleagues who still lying in hospital suffering from injuries caused by terrorist attack.…

After a recent bomb blast and gun attack in Iraq that targeted Christian students, a local bishop has criticized the government for failing to protect Christians, who are suffering from a series of violent attacks by terrorist groups.…

Tehran Times Political Desk TEHRAN – Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani met with the representative of the Assyrian and Chaldean Christian communities in Majlis on Saturday. The secretary generals of the Union of Assyrians in Asia, Europe and the United…

By David Boyajian* Woodrow Wilson, the 28th American president, is looking down in horror at what the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWC; WilsonCenter.org) is doing in his name.…

Roland Flamini When Pope Benedict XVI goes to Cyprus on June 4-6, at stake will be the future of Christianity in the Middle East. The Cyprus visit will be the occasion for a preliminary meeting of bishops and patriarchs from the Coptic, Chaldean, Maronite, Syriac…

Fuad Hussein, the Kurdistan Region President’s Chief of Staff visited Erbil’s Jimhuri Hospital, which had received a number of the Christian victims. Kurdistan govt condemned a weekend attack on Christian students offers support to victims…

The patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church has issued a call for “prayer and pardon” following the murder of Christian students in Mosul. “Today our eyes are filled with tears. We are stunned by this attack on innocent young…

Dear Mr Shahen Following from our recent discussions I have taken the liberty of writing to the Minister for lmmigration the Hon Chris Evans,to raise w ith him the plight of Assyriansin lraq and refugee camps and the need for a more compassionate response from the AustralianG overnment.…

MOSUL, Iraq, MAY 3, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Four people were killed and 171 were wounded Sunday when a bus convoy carrying Christian students to the University of Mosul was attacked.…

VATICAN CITY, MAY 3, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The pre-synodal council for the Special Assembly for the Middle East is underlining the urgency of a convinced ecumenical commitment and respectful collaboration with Jews and Muslims.…

By Carol Glatz – Catholic News Service At least four people died and more than 170 were injured when buses carrying Christian university students were bombed in a roadside attack near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.…

Two separate bombs exploded along the road leading into the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Sunday killing at least one person and wounding at least 80 others. The bombs exploded near buses carrying Christian students who were travelling to Mosul…

By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor Medics in a hospital in Irbil tend to a victim of a bomb attack that targeted Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, May 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed) (CNSNews.com) – Iraq’s embattled Christian minority came under attack…

May 2, 2010 – The Assyrian Universal Alliance strongly condemns the cowardly attacks against buses carrying Christian Assyrian university students from their city of Qaraqosh (Baghdida), 40km east of Mosul, to the University of Mosul. A car bomb…

Ankawa.com – Exclusive An official from the administration of Al-Hamdania hospital reported to the site of Ankawa.com that the number of casualties of the suicide bombing targeted Baghdeeda buses transferring the students to the University of Mosul, Who reviewed by the…