Monthly Archives: November 2010

GMTPanARMENIAN.Net – Terrorist attacks against Christians have caused those living in Mosul to consider leaving the city in Iraq’s north, according to Emil Shamoun Noona, the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul.…

Sydney, Australia – 23 November 2010 The Assyrian Universal Alliance – Australia Chapter (AUA) has met a number of times with the Australian government officials and presented detailed letters and…

BAGHDAD // With attacks on their community continuing, Iraqi Christians in Baghdad are looking north to the Kurdish region, as they seek safety and an alternative to fleeing their country entirely.…

Iraqi Christians at a church in Amman, Jordan An assault on a church in Baghdad and other targeted attacks on Christian families are driving fear into the hearts of the remaining members of this religious minority in Iraq,…

Ahmed Rehab, Executive Director, Council of American-Islamic Relations-Chicago The Council on American-Islamic Relations recently rallied alongside Chicago’s Assyrian community to condemn violence against Iraqi Christians.…

Sunday, Nov. 7, an al Qaeda affiliated terrorist group stormed into the cathedral of the Syriac Catholic Church during the evening Mass, killing the priest offering the Holy Mass. Two other priests were murdered as well.…

Mosul (AINA) — Two Assyrian brothers were killed in their welding shop in west Mosul today, according to AFP. Saad Hanna, 43, and Waad Hanna, 40, were shot dead…

As Italian Catholic parishes joined in a day of prayer for the embattled Christians of Iraq, Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk added an appeal: “Do not leave us alone in this time of tribulation.”…

For fear of staying in the capital, many took refuge in Sulaimaniya. Here, Nov. 20, they were visited by the Archbishop of Kirkuk and the wife of Iraqi President Talabani…

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — Three people were killed Monday in Iraq in the latest attack targeting Christians, police in the city of Mosul said. In one attack, two Christian brothers were killed in Mosul when gunmen broke into…

AMMAN — A spate of attacks targeting Christians in Iraq has forced many to flee to neighbouring Jordan which many see as a stepping stone to a new life as far away as possible from the violence-ridden country.…

Sydney – 21 November, 2010 Mr. Hermiz Shahen, the Regional Secretary of the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) in Australia and New Zealand received an invitation from Reverend the Hon. Fred…

Black March Sydney, Address: The Significance of Australia’s Intervention in Iraq and the Contemporary Assyrian Genocide.” – i.e. Speech by Ray Elishapour We, as members of the Assyrian, community,…

“We ask that the martyrs of Iraq be canonized, because the example of their lives and their sacrifice is an inspiration to us all as Christians, Arabs and non alike, living in the…

ARBIL: The Secretary-General of Iraq’s National Chaldean Council, Dhia Petros, demanded the Iraqi government and the world at large on Friday to provide…

Representatives of Assyrian, Chaldean and Aramaean Christians in Iraq are proposing the creation of an autonomously administered region for their people in the Ninewa province in the northern part of the country. “In the Ninewa plains, Christians,…

By Malin Jordan   SURREY–It wasn’t the usual Sunday Mass for Chaldean Catholic worshippers at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Surrey Nov. 14. Instead, the usual smiles, kind…

Raymond George -California  The Iraqi Christian community is mourning the deaths of their loved ones after the deadly attack at Our Lady of Salvation Syriac Catholic Church in Baghdad where two…

Canon Andrew White Many of us Christians in the Middle East are under attack. While we have been under attack in Iraq since 2003, in the past month it has all changed for us. 93 Christians…

By Noori Barka, Iraqi Christians are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia. Their history goes back to ancient Babylon and Ur of the Chaldeans. They are the original builders of the Cradle…