Monthly Archives: November 2014

Ankawa.com – Mosul The site of Ankawa.com displays another much clearer video showing the crime committed by the militants of the Islamic State by blowing up the victory monastery for nuns. The monastery located in Alaraby neighbourhood at the northeast the city of Mosul.…

By Sabra Stafford Crime Desk sstafford@turlockjournal.com The Assyrian American Civic Club has gathered hundreds of boxes of donated winter gear that is headed to Iraq. On a long table in a back room at the Assyrian American Civic Club volunteer Melinda…

Agence France-Presse A photo taken on November 19, 2014 shows a general view of Mardin, in southeastern Turkey. The Christian Assyrian community in Turkey, which now numbers no more than a several thousand, has been hit by wave after…

The Syriac families in the Dekwaneh house arrived in Lebanon in early October after two months as internal refugees in the Kurdish capital of Erbil.(The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban) Syriac girl, Sandra, rides her toy car. (The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban)…

Carey Lodge Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province, June 30, 2014. “This is not a question of religion and religious excess; this…

By Mark Durie A slogan of the Muslim Brotherhood is “Islam is the solution”. Dean Philip Jensen recently stated in regard to the Islamic State (ISIS) that “It is time to face the truth that Islam itself is part of the problem.” Solution or problem: what is the truth about Islam?…

by Ed West Pope Francis pictured with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in a poster displayed outside a Catholic Church in Istanbul (CNS) Vatican spokesman says some refugees may be present when the Pope meets Catholic students…

ALEPPO: Tens of thousands of Christians have fled Syria’s war-wracked second city Aleppo but many others are determined to hold out despite their dread of Islamic State jihadists. Christians of various denominations make up around 10 percent of Syria’s population…

Sydney – 26 November 2014 During the past five months, the Australia Chapter of the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) has conducted a series of meetings with high officials of the Australian government Authorities regarding the violent attacks in Iraq by the terrorist group called…

Dr Alexander Yakovenko, Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Deputy foreign minister (2005-2011). A woman and a soldier loyal to Syria’s president Bashar Al-Assad stand beside a damaged church in Maaloula August 21, 2014. (Reuters/Omar Sanadiki)…

Steve Herzig ISIS fighters (CBN) Do a computer search for “ISIS” and “Christians” and prepare to gasp in horror. ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or simply Islamic State) is slaughtering Christians in the…

By The Daily Telegraph IZRAA: Artillery shook St Elias’s Church as the priest reached the end of the Lord’s Prayer. The small congregation kept their eyes on the pulpit, kneeling when required and trying to ignore the regular thuds that rattled the stained glass windows above them.…

Ankawa.com – Younes Thanon Translated by Rashwan Issam Al-Daqaq The site of Ankawa.com individually publish a short video showing the first moments for the blowing up of the nuns victory monastery located in Alaraby neighbourhood at the northeast of the city of Mosul. The sources of Ankawa.com in Mosul said that the…

Ankawa.com – Mosul Exclusive – Translated by Rashwan Issam Al-Daqaq The site of Ankawa.com received information from its own sources in the city of Mosul, specifically in Alaraby neighbourhood, that the militants of ISIL blew up the Victory Monastery of the young nuns located opposite to the monastery of St. Georgis.…

TEHRAN (FNA)- A number of high-ranking Iranian bishops and Assyrian and Christian members of the parliament in a letter to US President Barack Obama stressed that the Supreme Leader’s fatwa that has placed a strong religious ban on the acquisition, possession and use of atomic bombs leaves no room for western concerns over Iran’s nuclear…

By Sam Muhho Cooperation is an essential part of maintaining a healthy and progressive international order that serves the interests of multipolarity and the people as opposed to the powers of the financial elite and imperialism.…

Alyaa Alansari Bent Al Rafedain organization / Women’s rights activist Every year on the 25th of November the world celebrates the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and international organizations and women’s…

by Staff Reporter Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako (CNS) Patriarch compares situation in Iraq to Europe under Nazi occupation The Chaldean Catholic Patriarch has implored moderate Muslims to reject “terrorism in…

Iraqi Christians pray during mass in an Erbil church, July 20, 2014. (AFP/File) Two years ago Jalal Yako, a Syriac Catholic priest, returned to his home town of Qaraqosh to persuade members of his community to stay in Iraq and not to emigrate because of the violence directed against them.…