Monthly Archives: April 2019

By Steve CarmodyEleven members of Michigan’s congressional delegation are urging federal immigration officials to hold off on deporting hundreds of Iraqi nationals.…

By Sally RawsthorneA Yagoona man has appeared before Parramatta Local Court from his hospital bedside, charged with the murder of Five Dock man John Odisho.…

Artemisia Gentileschi Judith and Holofernes, ca. 1620 Uffizi Gallery, Florence Not only a tale of the Israelites’ heroism against their oppressors, the biblical Book of Judith also contains one of the most beloved subjects in art history: the titular heroine choreographically decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes.…

by The Armenian Mirror-Spectator 63 0 YEREVAN — On Monday, April 1, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s office issued a statement congratulation the country’s Assyrian minority on Hab-nsan, the Assyrian New…

Fr Terry Tastard A priest in London, Mgr Nizar Semaan has been chosen to be Archbishop Co-adjutor of the war-ravaged city of Mosul in Iraq. ‘Co-adjutor’ means that in due course he will succeed the current incumbent of the Syriac Catholic archdiocese.…

Melkite Archbishop Issam Darwich of Zahle, Lebanon, poses with a Syrian Christian refugee at the entrance to St. John the Merciful Table. The diocese, close to the Syrian border, serves a daily hot meal there to 1,000 Syrian Christian refugees. (CNS photo/courtesy Melkite Catholic Diocese of Zahle)…

Fears about their persecution increase after US rejects their plea The heavily damaged Saint John the Baptist Church in Qaraqosh, about 30km east of Mosul, a month after Iraqi forces recaptured it from ISIS in late 2016. AFP The heavily damaged Saint John the Baptist Church in Qaraqosh, about 30km east of Mosul, a month…

The museum is home toartefacts from the Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Islamic periods. Closed since 1991, after 10 years of work it has reopened its doors to the public and intends to become a “message of peace and…

By Citra Abbott AN urgent appeal to the UK Government has come from a leading bishop in Iraq desperate for help to rebuild homes in a Christian town devastated by Daesh (ISIS) extremists.…

The date of Easter Sunday isn’t fixed so preparation is key if planning a holiday – here’s when it falls next year and how it is calculated In 2019, Easter Sunday falls at its latest point for eight years (AFP/Getty Images)…

The response to date, and what still needs to be done. Daesh fighters enter the city of Rakka. / Photo: Unknown, Wikimedia Commons, CC Religious persecution around the world is on the rise, perpetrated by both states and non-state actors1. Atrocities, including mass killings,…

By: Sanam SHANTYAEI Follow | Joanna COCKERELL | Stéphanie CHEVAL | Sonia BARITELLO Monzer Darwish calls himself a “metalhead”. After losing one of his band members in 2013 to the Syrian conflict, he decided to make a documentary about the heavy metal scene in the country…

Hermiz Shahen On Sunday 31 March 2019, the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) and the Assyrian Australian National Federation (AANF) hosted another successful Assyrian New Year festival at Fairfield showground. An estimated fifteen thousand people were in attendance to celebrate this important Assyrian holiday.…

Levi Clancy | Christians from across the region, including the diaspora from around the world, joined the celebrations in Duhok, Kurdistan Region, April 1, 2019. (Photo: Levi Clancy)…

An Iraqi member of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue says the pope knows there are risks, but… Marie Malzac Iraq…

Assyrians in Duhok province marked the 6769th Babylonian Assyrian New Year on Monday. The Akitu festival marks the rebirth of nature in the spring, securing the life and future of the people for the coming year.…

YEREVAN, APRIL 1, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has congratulated the Assyrian community of Armenia on Ha b’ Nisin – the Assyrian New Year. “Dear representatives of the Assyrian community of Armenia”…

By Tamer El-Ghobashy March 31 at 2:19 PM (Tamer El-Ghobashy/The Washington Post) BATNAYA, Iraq — More than two years after Islamic State militants were ousted from this ancient town in northern Iraq, only one man has returned. He lives in the wreckage of a house that has enough of a ceiling to protect him from…

Iraqi women cast flowers into the Tigris river in remembrance of the victims of the capsized ferry in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on March 22, 2019. (AFP)…

Armenians in Syria’s war-torn Aleppo packed their Forty Martyrs Cathedral Saturday for the first mass in the centuries-old church since its restoration began more than a year ago.…