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By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – A majority of Iraqi refugees who have returned from exile to Baghdad regret their decision, saying they face insecurity, a lack of jobs and inadequate health care, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.…
Read moreBy Andrea Kirk Assaf ROME, OCT. 19, 2010 (Zenit.org).- St. Peter’s square these days is a particularly international meeting point. Amidst the throngs of ever-present tourists drawn…
Read moreYour Eminences, Beatitudes and Excellencies,Fraternal Delegates of the Sister Churches and Ecclesial Communities, Dear Sisters and Brothers, Auditors, Experts, Invited Guests and Assistants,…
Read moreVATICAN CITY — Allowing priests to marry has contributed to the survival of the Christian faith in Iraq, said Lebanese Bishop Guy-Paul Noujaim Tuesday, on the sidelines of a Middle East synod at the Vatican.…
Read more “Guarantee peace and security to obtain democracy†saids the Chaldean Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad in an interview in Rome. “To the Christians of the West, I first of all ask that they pray for peace, then that…
Read morePADDY AGNEW PEACE AND security in Iraq represents the only sure way to stop a wave of emigration that has seen the country’s Christian community fall from an estimated 1.5 million in the 1980s to about 400,000 today, according to a group of Iraqi Christians…
Read moreAnkawa.com – Exclusive According to a trusted sources reported to the site of Ankawa.com, one of the Christian people from Bartella was killed by unknown gunmen in mysterious circumstances last night.…
Read moreBy Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Specific synod suggestions for a common Catholic-Orthodox celebration of Easter, wider authority for Eastern Catholic patriarchs — including participation in conclaves to elect a pope — and the need for local dialogue with…
Read moreSHEMIRAN Younan has been cooking her ricotta puff recipe for 50 years. It was so long ago that details of the recipe’s origins have become hazy and it has since evolved to suit her tastes…
Read moreDozens of angry young men protested in front of the Fathers priests’ residence place  Ankawa.com – Exclusive Dozens of angry Baghdeeda young men protested on Thursday, 14th October 2010,…
Read moreAnkawa.com – Exclusive  Major Shamel is one of Nineveh police officers. He, with his bodyguards and armed friends, assaulted one of Baghdeeda young men on Wednesday, the 13th of October 2010.…
Read moreAkad volleyball team celebrates winning Kurdistan>s volleyball league title in Suleimaniya The Kurdish Globe–Erbil By Zakaria Muhammed Akad wins the trophy for the seventh year running…
Read moreThe rights of Christian minorities in the Middle East, and especially in Iraq, were in focus as the Synod of Bishops continued its discussions in plenary sessions on October 14 and 15. “Churches and minority religions in the Middle East must not be subject to…
Read moreIn countries where Islam is the state religion, no Muslim can convert (but Christians can become Mohammedans),where there is freedom of worship, it is limited and only in designated places. In Lebanon, Christian united among confessions, but divided politically.…
Read moreThe Chair of the Syriac Culture Association Yuhanna Aktas stated Turkish State Minister Faruk Celik should apologize to Christians for calling them gavur (an offensive ethnic slur used by Muslims in Turkey to describe all who are non-Muslim)…
Read moreSanta MIKAIL – Brussels On Thursday, October 5, 2010, a delegation of the Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO – Mtakasta Europe), which included Mr. Ablahad Astepho (Director of ADO Europe) and Mr. Georges Chachan (Head of…
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Read moreCrime Stoppers of Michigan and the Chaldean American Chamber are offering up to $12,500 for information leading to an arrest in the shooting death of Mazin (Mike) Khmoro, 48, of Farmington Hills, who worked at a Southfield party store owned by family members.…
Read moreFrom the notorious Assyrian Village of Tel-Tamar (its people among the first settlers in Syria, post Simmel Massacre, 1933) comes “Dode,†born David Merza, in his first 9-track CD release titled “Shitranty. 
Read moreAnkawa.com – Baghdad The Secretary General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement and the member of Iraqi Parliament, Yonadem Kanna, said that the Ministry of Higher Education and…
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