Monthly Archives: June 2010

BAGHDAD — The U.N. says nearly 60 Iraqi refugees deported from Britain and other European countries have arrived in Baghdad despite concerns the situation is still too dangerous for their return.…

The United Nations refugee agency is appealing to four European countries not to forcibly deport Iraqi asylum seekers to Iraq where their lives could be in danger. The agency says four countries – the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the U.K. – are planning to send Iraqi citizens to Baghdad this week.…

Washington DC, June 10, 2010 In the U.S. Capital Washington DC, for three days starting from June 7, 2010 leaders from the Chaldean Federation of America (CFA) and the Chaldean-Middle Eastern…

Archbishop Ruggero Franceschini is in Italy to attend the funeral of Msgr. Luigi Padovese in Milan. He confirms the death by Islamic ritual of the Vicar of Anatolia. He also confirms the sanity of the assassin, he has known him for a long time. A murder planned and studied in detail by subversive ……

Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 2lune2070 Mr Hermiz Shahen Deputy Secretary & Regional Secretary of Australia and New Zealand Assyrian Universal Alliance-Australia Chapter PO Box 34…

KIRKUK, Iraq, JUNE 8, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Christians in Iraq are expressing fear of renewed violence after 34-year-old Hani Salim Wadi was killed Monday night in Kirkuk.…

Hani Salim Wadi owned a mobile phone store in downtown. He was 34, married with a daughter. Local eyewitnesses say that he was shot to death in a “targeted killing”. The local Christian community now fears a new wave of violence.…

KIRKUK, Iraq, JUNE 8, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Christians in Iraq are expressing fear of renewed violence after 34-year-old Hani Salim Wadi was killed Monday night in Kirkuk.…

Chicago ~ The son of Helen Talia, an Assyrian Writer and Activist, Slewo Awesha Oshana graduated from Conant High School on Sunday, June 6, 2010, after completing a four-year general education curriculum.…

ICIN (Iraqi Christians In Need) is holding a PGM (Public General Meeting) To be held on the 12th June 2010, 7pm to start 7:30pm At The Parish Centre, Holy Trinity Church 41 Brook Green, London W6 7BL…

The history of Christianity in Iraq dates back to the first century AD, but since the outbreak of sectarian violence in the country following the US invasion of 2003, many Christians are fleeing their homeland and finding sanctuary in Syria. Stephen Starr reports from Damascus…

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service NICOSIA, Cyprus (CNS) — Presenting the working document for the special Synod of Bishops on the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI prayed for “just and lasting solutions” to the region’s conflicts, which cause so much hardship.…

SOUTHFIELD — The Chaldean Community Foundation and the City of Southfield are co-hosting the fifth annual Chaldean American Festival on June 11, 12 and 13 at the Southfield Civic Center.…

DIYARBAKIR — It was nice and shady inside the small cell, but Montana beckoned me out. “Now you can tell your friends you’ve been inside a Turkish political prison,’’ he said, laughing…

BY NIRAJ WARIKOO With growing concern about the plight of Christians in their native land, local Iraqi Americans met this week with the highest-ranking State Department official in charge of Iraq policy when he made a three-day stop in Detroit.…

Ankawa.com – Hawlati The Kurdish newspaper “Hawlati”, reported in its issue dated 3rd of June a news story which said the man accused of killing the Christian member of the first session of the parliament of Kurdistan, representing the Assyrian Democratic Movement,…

Bishop Luigi Padovese, the pope’s apostolic vicar in Anatolia, was found dead at his house in the southern province of Hatay yesterday afternoon. The bishop had been stabbed to death, according to news sources.…

Secretary of State Michael Corbin Detroit, June 2nd, 2010 Today, leaders from the Chaldean Federation of America (CFA) and the Chaldean Assyrian Syriac Council of America (CASCA) attended a joint meeting with US Senator img-602115617-0001.pdf…

The beleaguered Christian community in Iraq may see a ray of hope as Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court approved recently the results of the March election, which include five Christian seats in the Iraqi parliament, Persecution.org said.…

ICIN (Iraqi Christians In Need) is holding a PGM (Public General Meeting) To be held on the 12th June 2010, 7pm to start 7:30pm At The Parish Centre, Holy Trinity Church 41 Brook Green, London W6 7BL…