Monthly Archives: March 2011

By Ed West Iraq’s ancient Christian community has run out of time and will disappear soon, a senior Iraqi churchman has warned. Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil made his alarming predictions at a press conference…

Armagh Diocesan Centre Pastoral Centre, Dundalk, Co Louth For Everything there is a Season Good afternoon Cardinal Brady, Bishop Clifford, ladies and gentlemen and fellow…

Speaking in Ireland, a Chaldean Catholic bishop who ministers in northern Iraq offered an overview of the persecution of Christians there and lamented the “the human rights abuses and near-genocide conditions Iraqi Christians experience.”…

niqash | Oday Mahdi For the first time ever, Christian leaders have formally demanded the creation of a province in the Ninawa Plain, east of Mosul.…

The Assyrian Australian National Federation (“AANF”) together with the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) will be hosting this year’s Assyrian New Year Festival on Sunday, 27th March 2011, at Fairfield Showground. The Festival will start at 10:00 am till 10:00 pm.…

Bkerke, Lebanon, Mar 16, 2011 / 01:03 am (CNA).- Lebanon’s Maronite Catholic Church has elected Bishop Bechara Rai, a 71-year-old monk, as its new patriarch.…

By Natacha Yazbeck (AFP) BEIRUT — Bishop Beshara Rai was elected as the 77th patriarch of Lebanon’s influential Maronite church on Tuesday to succeed Nasrallah Sfeir, at a time when his community’s political loyalty is deeply divided.…

By New York Times News Service Donny George, an esteemed Iraqi archaeologist who tried to stop the looters ransacking the Iraq National Museum after the invasion of 2003, then led in…

By DOUGLAS MARTIN Donny George, an esteemed Iraqi archaeologist who tried to stop the looters ransacking the Iraq National Museum after the invasion of 2003, then led in…

Under constant Islamist attacks, over half of Iraq’s Christian community has fled the country and thousands of others are seeking shelter away from their hometowns.…

by Speroforum The following speech was given to a meeting of Legatus, a membership association of American Catholic business owners by Cardinal George Pell of Australia on the theme…

Ankawa.com – Exclusive The former Director-General of the Iraqi Directorate of Antiquities and Museums Department, Dr. Donny George, died recently after a heart attack moment after his…

by Patrick Martin Dozens of armed police shut down the Baghdad offices of two opposition political parties Sunday, in the latest demonstration of the dictatorial reality of US-occupied Iraq’s nominally “democratic” government.…

André Anton’s “Defying Deletion: The Fight Over Iraq’s Nineveh Plains,” which tells the plight of Christian Assyrians in Iraq, debuts Wednesday during the Detroit International Film Festival.…

Who could have known in 2003 – the year the U.S. invaded Iraq – that the country’s Christians would be a focal point of the war’s discussion eight years later? U.S. policymakers couldn’t.…

 By Brooke Anderson ANKAWA, Iraq – When Suhail Louis left the sectarian violence of Baghdad a year ago, he thought he would find comfort in the safety of Northern Iraq. Instead, he’s faced with a new discomfort: unemployment.…

Date/Time:Mar 11 2011 6:00pm – 10:00pm Price:Free to the public. Free refreshments. Cash bar available. Where:Inside/Outside Gallery, Levantine Cultural Center…

Ankawa.com – Mosul – Exclusive Dr. Duraid Hikmat Zoma, Advisor to the Governor of Nineveh for Minority Affairs,…

BEIRUT | iloubnan.info – March 08, 2011Prime Minister Designate Najib Mikati met on Tuesday with British Ambassador to Lebanon Francis Guy and discussed with her equality in education for women and empowering female representation in the Parliament.…

Seyfo Center would like to welcome and congratulate Dr. Henry Theriault for his acceptance to join the Academic Board members. Professor Henry Theriault received his B.A. from Princeton University…