Monthly Archives: November 2010

Statue of Saint Gregory at the Vatican. Ann Arbor, Mich. – The conversion of Tiridates, king of Armenia, to Christianity by Saint Gregory the Illuminator at the beginning of the fourth century, is narrated in…

The Hague, 18 Nov. (AKI) – A Dutch member of parliament Joel Voordewind, is urging the Netherlands to help Iraq’s Assyrian Christians establish their own northern…

The report’s first section details the status of religious freedom in 27 nations, many in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, but also including Cuba and Venezuela.…

Assyrian International News Agency President Jalal Talabani said he did not oppose the formation of a Province specifically for Christians in Iraq, warning at the same time not encouraging them to migrate to…

Hero…  The Hague, 18 Nov. (AKI) – A Dutch member of parliament Joel Voordewind, is urging the Netherlands to help Iraq’s Assyrian Christians establish their own northern…

YEREVAN (News.am)—A monument to the victims of the 1915 Assyrian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire will be erected in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, News.am reported Wednesday.…

Syriac Catholic Archbishop George Basile Casmoussa of Mosul sees a new phase in the campaign of violence against Iraqi Christians, with the murder of two Christian in…

The attack at a Catholic Church in Baghdad happened during worship services on Oct. 31 and claimed the lives of numerous innocent Assyrian parishioners and priests. The target is Assyrian people, the indigenous people of Iraq. This Assyrian nation,…

 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says advancing religious freedom around the world is a core element of U.S. foreign policy.  November 18, 2010 By Heather Maher WASHINGTON — The U.S. State…

Monday, November 15, 2010 On Sunday, November 14, 2010, the Assyrian community in Australia welcomed Mr. Georgis Bakoos, a special political adviser to the Hon. Nuri al-Maliki, the Prime…

To my sisters and brothers,  Please support the United Nations Petition to protect the Iraqi Chrisitians. We need several thousands of signatures. The petition drive started on Sunday. The urgency is…

DETROIT — Hundreds protested outside the McNamara Federal Building in Detroit on Monday demanding security for Iraq’s diminishing Christian population.…

New constitutional options have been put on the table by members of the Assyrian Universal Alliance in the wake of violence that claimed the lives of almost one hundred Christians in Iraq.…

KEVIN MENZ   Over 100 people gathered in front of St. Paul’s Cathedral on Spadina Crescent Nov. 13 to march through downtown Saskatoon in protest against ethnic cleansing of Christians in Iraq.…

by Jean Eckian Paris – Almost 4000 people demonstrated on November 14 in Paris to protest against the attack which killed 58 Christians in Baghdad on October 31 in the Syriac Church Notre-Dame of the Perpetual Help.…

When I first heard the news of bombings in Baghdad’s Christian neighbourhoods last week, preceded by a hostage-taking in a church where 50 died, I thought of Maryam. Not Maryam,…

On Tuesday, 16 November 2010, a delegation representing the Assyrian Universal Alliance – Australian Chapter (AUA) and the Assyrian Australian National Federation (AANF) headed to Canberra for a full day visit to meet with Australian Federal…

Survivors Give Testimony of Faith and Courage  On Friday, Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic accepted 26 injured survivors of the Oct. 31 massacre in Baghdad’s Syrian Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.…

Memorial to victims of the 1915Assyrian Genocide in Ottoman Empire will be erected in Yerevan on the initiative of Assyrian community of Armenia, president of Assyrian Khatata federation Irina Gasparyan told NEWS.am.…

(CNN) — She lives in a paralyzing state of “constant and fear” and it’s forcing her to keep her children indoors and out of school. That’s how one Baghdad woman describes the dire predicament faced by her and…