Monthly Archives: March 2010

Hackettstown — The Orthodox-Catholic Church of America (OCCA) will make its presence known in New Jersey for the first time on Sunday, July 19, with Divine Liturgy to be celebrated by the Reverend Father William Barkhorn of Branchburg.…

  The Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce will host its seventh annual Awards Dinner on Friday, April 16 at 6 p.m. in West Bloomfield. Top area business and community leaders will be recognized for their outstanding…

Ankawa.com – Exclusive  Five candidate winners from the lists of our people competing for the parliamentary seats within the quota allocated to Christians, three of them to the Assyrian Democratic Movement and two others to the People’s Council of Chaldean Syriac Assyrian.…

by Spero News  “We’re waiting to see which direction and what guidelines the new government will follow. We hope that the government’s plans call for peace and security.” This is what Fides learned from Archbishop Avak Asadourian, Primate of the Armenian Orthodox…

Ankawa.com – Mosul – Exclusive Our sources in Mosul reported to the site of Ankawa.com, a bomb exploded this morning, Saturday 27 March, near the house of a Christian citizen. The explosion wounded four members of the family and caused extensive damage to the house.…

Ankawa.com – Exclusive The site of ankawa.com publishes the results for the election of Iraqi parliament 2010 as announced by the Independent High Electoral Commission for elections during the press conference, on Friday evening in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.…

ASSYRIAN UNIVERSAL ALLIANCE AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND REGION Member: Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization (UNPO) Sydney – 19 March, 2010  The Assyrian Universal Alliance -Australian Chapter joint hundreds of the Australian…

Ankawa.com – Baghdad – Khulood Al-Benian Secretary General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement, Yonadem Kanna, said that he is with all the claims to transform the targeting of the Christians to the international investigator, referring that the Iraqi government is “covering up the…

Ankawa.com – Exclusive  Source reported to the site of Ankawa.com in Mosul, that unidentified gunmen attacked this morning, Wednesday, 17/03/2010, the Christian citizen Sabah Jacob Adam and shot him dead after they opened fire on him.…

By Aaron J. Leichman A Christian shopkeeper in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was gunned down Wednesday as he was heading to work, according to a local official. “Unknown armed men driving an unmarked car killed Sabah Gurgis while he was on…

Ankawa.com – Exclusive Member of the Board of the High Electoral Commission for election in Arbil, Hakem Sardar Abd-Alkareem, announced that the Commission decided to reconsider the votes that have been excluded in a number of countries abroad.…

Sabah Yacoub Adam, 55, a married Chaldean Catholic and father of a child, was killed in cold blood. BAGHDAD (AsiaNews) – Another targeted execution of an Iraqi Christians in Mosu, northern Iraq. Wednesday morning, an armed commando killed a businessman aged…

By: Weekly Staff BRUSSELS—AGBU Europe recently congratulated the Swedish Parliament for acknowledging the genocides committed against the Armenians, Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs and Pontic Greeks during World War I.…

NEWS.am posts unofficial translation of the motion to Genocide Resolution approved by Swedish Parliament on March 11. 1 Proposal for Parliament Decision 1. The Parliament announces to the government its decision in reference to what is…

There have been suspicious delays in announcing the election results in Iraq, amid fears that extensive efforts are underway to distort the real outcome of the poll Speaking from the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Struan Stevenson MEP,…

Assyrian Chaldean protestors who believe their votes were marginalized in last week’s Iraq election were gathering outside Bella Banquet Hall in Warren at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 12. A third of the ballots cast in the U.S. are being rejected, according to Zowaa, the Assyrian Democratic Movement.…

About 30% of ballots submitted by Iraqi-Americans are being rejected in Arbil, Iraq’s headquarters’ for the Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) program. The U.S.-based Iraq Elections marked the third-largest OCV voter turnout worldwide.…

We are urging everyone who voted to email IHEC at the following email addresses the following recommended message, or a message of your own: ocvshekawihq@ihec-iraq.com and ocv.contrc@yahoo.com…

 By : Gaby Kiwarkis On the18th April 2010. , Assyrians and New Zealanders will gather at Trentham Military Camp in Wellington New Zealand. The gathering is to commemorate the late Captain Robert Kenneth Nicol of the Wellington Regiment who in August 1918 fell in battle whilst assisting Assyrian…

Ankawa.com – Stockholm – Exclusive After hot debate and by the difference of only one vote, the Swedish parliament passed this afternoon, Thursday 11 March, the crime committed against our people from Chaldean Assyrian Syriac, Armenians and Albontien Greece (Sipho) that occurred in 1915 as crimes of “genocide”.…