Monthly Archives: August 2007

We proudly announce to our beloved visitors of ankawa.com that a new web site is published at the address; www.marauraha.com This site is a resulted efforts of the committee for Mar Auraha Chaldean Catholic Church in Phoenix, Arizona.…

Blogged by: Toni Oyry The checkpoints and barricades on nearly every corner of Beirut are frustrating for Beirutis and visiting westerners, but they’re particularly bad news for Iraqi refugees fleeing violence in their home country.…

SHARANSH, Iraq (AFP) – A Christian Iraqi, 43-year-old Emmanuel was born and raised in Baghdad where he lived and managed a liquor store that has been in the family for decades, until he received death threats from Islamist insurgents.…

Rome, Aug 27, 2007 / 09:57 am (CNA).- The plight of the Iraqi Christian community is one that is quite desperate even though it has existed for centuries. In response to the dire situation, Iraqi Christians in Need (ICIN) has been founded to provide money…

By Nina Shea Monday, August 27, 2007; A13 Recent bombings in Iraq’s Kurdish area nearly annihilated two Yazidi villages, killing hundreds of this ancient angel-revering, Indo-European religious group. The single deadliest atrocity of the Iraq conflict, it was also the latest demonstration that Iraq’s non-Muslims are in danger of extinction.…

The book, Music Pearls of Beth Nahrain, is about the modern assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac music. Beside the history of the modern music The collection of our Music was very disorganized due to the global dispersal of the…

By George Jaksa gjaksa@flintjournal.com • 810.766.6332 FLINT – The patriarch of the worldwide Assyrian Church of the East will be at Mar Shimun Bar-Sabbai Church of the East this weekend for a parish visit and to ordain a deacon for the church.…

Ahmadiya (AsiaNews) – Priests in Iraq are a “sign of hope for the persecuted Church”, but also for national reconciliation; this was the theme at the centre of prayers and reflection shared by 18…

A new charity has been launched in the UK to provide help for Iraq’s ancient minority Christian community, many of whom have been forced to flee their homes.Iraqi Christians in Need (ICIN) has been set up by a group of Iraqi Christians who are concerned about the worsening plight of the country’s Christians.…

critical mass and finally, Washington is taking notice. On July 25, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) conducted a hearing to gather information regarding the volatile situation facing the ancient communities of Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac Christians, Sabaean Mandaeans and Yazidis.…

August, 2007 — If the targeted persecution and deadly violence against Christians continues in Iraq, it may be the end of the presence of this ancient people who have inhabited that land for more than 6,000 years. That is the message the Chaldean…

Allie Martin and Jody Brown A minister at-large with Open Doors International says conditions for Christians in Iraq continue to intensify. Some of those Iraqi Christians who are forced to flee their homes because of Muslim terrorists, says Paul Estabrooks, are finding better…

Nineveh Star Soccer club has  exciting game in Toronto for Aug 26, 2007 under the name “Assyrian Society”. “Nineveh Star” is playing in the new international football stadium in Toronto.…

By Sahar Al-Haideri MOSUL, Iraq – They have been threatened because of their religious faith, their distinctive clothing and their success in business. They have been killed because of a Danish cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammad.…

Göttingen, 16 August 2007 After bomb attacks in North Iraq Plebiscite on the Belonging of Yezidi region Sinjar is demanded After the dreadful attacks against the small Yezidi towns of Til Ezer and Siba Sheikh…

The Victorian Arabic Social Services is funded by Department of Health and Aging for another year till July 08 to work in promoting Community Partners Program (CPP) to the Arabic Speaking communities across the Northern and Western regions, and…

The Assyrian Church of the East Youth Association diocese of Sydney Australia is having a major event (Walkathon); this year as highlighted on Walkathon Sheet will start on 23rd of September from St Mary’s Church and will finish at St Hurmizd Cathedral 10km.…

The man was Baghdad’s Armenian Archbishop Avak Asadourian, primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church (See of Etchmiadzin) in Iraq, who was addressing the World Council of Churches (WCC) international conference in Amman, Jordan, earlier this summer.…

  Dear Ashur T.V. viewers, We are so thankful to hear of baby Kirillos’ successful surgery. Hats off to the wonderful Assyrian Aid Society members who made this mother’s…

By Fawaz Turki, Special to Gulf News Published: August 18, 2007, 00:05 The American invasion of Iraq has unlocked many social contradictions in that sad land, but surely the most goulish of these must be the emergence of that type of…