Monthly Archives: January 2015

Elections, Appointments Affect Iraq, USA, Canada and Australia Vatican City, (Zenit.org) | The Vatican announced today Pope Francis’ approval of the canonical election by the Synod of Bishops of the Chaldean Church of Rev. Basel Yaldo as auxiliary of the Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldeans.…

BY GREG YODER Syrian refugees International Needs Turkey is supporting Syrian refugees in Turkey. Turkey (MNN) — Syrian refugees are in the fight for their lives in Turkey. The Islamic State has forced thousands from their homes. Now they’re trying to survive in camps in snow and subfreezing temperatures.…

By Elissa Curtis Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish Regional Government, in northern Iraq, is home to tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians who have fled the threat of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants who have launched an offensive throughout much of Iraq and Syria in recent months. It was the protection…

Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – With an official statement the Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldeans denies the allegations circulated online that Patriarch Louis Raphael I granted his approval to the emigration of 13 thousand Iraqi Chaldean Christians in Canada and Germany. These strange statements – reads the statement, issued by the…

ANF – NEWS DESK Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan has sent a letter to the Assyrian-Syriac-Chaldean people, emphasising the importance of their participating in the construction of a democratic common nation in their ancestral homeland.…

Hundreds of Thousands of Iraqi Civilians Fleeing ISIL Are in Urgent Need of Critical Assistance Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) – joined by Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ed Markey (D-MA), Christopher Coons (D-DE), and Tim Kaine (D-VA)…

By John Carroll The future of three local Chaldean priests and seven others in the western United States is once again in limbo. Last October, the priests were ordered by the Chaldean patriarch of Iraq to return to Iraq. Then last week Pope Francis stepped in and suspended that order. But this weekend, a shocking…

By City News Service The Rev. Noel Gorgis talks to reporters on Oct. 22, 2014, at St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in El Cajon. Even Pope Francis cannot solve a brewing dispute between a prominent Chaldean priest in eastern San Diego County and the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq, it was reported…

The Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq demanded the government to disclose the circumstances of the death of the Iraqi cartoonist, Ahmed al-Rubaie, since the previous government refused to conduct any investigation concerning the causes of his death.…

Louis Raphael Sako Patriarch of the Chaldean Church Louis Raphael Sako celebrates Mass at Saint Marilia church in Arbil, Iraq. (Safin Hamed / AFP/Getty Images) By Tony Perry contact the reporter Chaldean priests say returning to Iraq would be suicide…

By Ahuva Balofsky “So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days’ journey.” (Jonah 3:3) The Adad Gate, one of the fifteen gateways of ancient Nineveh. (Photo: Fredarch/ Wiki Commons)…

Jennine Abdul Khalik Fairfield Advance The Assyrian Diqlat School celebrated its 40th anniversary with festivities at St Johns Park High School. THE Assyrian Diqlat School, a community language school based at Fairvale High School, recently celebrated its 40th anniversary.…

Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako Patriarch of the Chaldean Church Louis Raphael Sako celebrates Mass at Saint Marilia church in Arbil,Iraq. (Safin Hamed / AFP/Getty Images) By TONY PERRY contact the reporter Iraq Middle East Pope Francis Chaldean priests say returning to Iraq would be suicide…

His Holiness Patriarc Mor Ignatius Aphrem II opened the centennial commemoration of Sayfo on Sunday January 11, 2015 celebrating the Divine Liturgy at St. George Cathedral in Damascus. Sayfo is the Syriac name of the genocide that affected the Syriac Christians in the…

Ankawa.com – wa.com – Younes Thanon – Translated by Rashwan Issam Al-Daqaq A number of militants from the Islamic State in Mosul Tightened one of the citizens with ropes on the electric poles in one of the city streets. They put a sign on his body saying “false witness”.…

Iranian security agents arrested an Assyrian pastor and two Christian converts who were his guests at his Tehran residence on December 26, 2014, according to Mansour Borji, Spokesperson for the Alliance of Iranian Churches. Borji told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the full reasons for…

By Blanca Ruiz The Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, Emil Nona, who was forced from his eparchy by the Islamic State in 2014. Credit: Aid to the Church in Need. Erbil, Iraq, Jan 9, 2015 / 12:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Emil Nona is the Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, the Iraqi city overrun by the Islamic…

Refugee life in ErbilAid to the Church in Need The first school for Christian refugee children has welcomed students to classes. ERBIL, Kurdistan—”Thank you, thank you, thank you:” Suheila, an elderly Christian woman from Mosul was effusive in expressing her gratitude to a group of European visitors. “May God make things easy for you in…

By Roxana Popescu3:18 p.m.Jan. 8, 2015 Priests bless Louis Sako, 64, the new patriarch of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church at St. Joseph’s Church in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church enthroned a new patriarch during a ceremonial mass Wednesday that was held amid tight security in Baghdad. (AP Photo/ Karim…

10News Digital Team SAN DIEGO – In a landmark decision, Pope Francis has ruled that a priest who is part of the San Diego Iraqi Christian community will not have to return to Iraq. The Pope this week overturned a decree that would have sent Father Noel Gorgis of the St. Peters Chaldean Church in…