Monthly Archives: June 2010

The Syriac community in Turkey held its traditional mass in the southeastern province of Adıyaman on Wednesday. The 12th Great Ritual of the Syriac Kadim Community took place at the Mor Petrus…

VERCÄ°HAN ZÄ°FLÄ°OÄžLU ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News Thanks to efforts launched by Assyrian Metropolitan Melki Ãœrek, the Assyrian Metropolitan Church in southeastern Adıyaman receives permission for renovations…

 The Australian Chapter of the Assyrian Universal Alliance proudly announced that the Assyrian Genocide Monument in Australia will be unveiled on August 7, 2010. The Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) in 1970 designated the 7th of August of each…

MOSUL, Iraq, June 29 (UPI) — Delegates at a Christian conference near the Iraqi city of Mosul called on the government to strengthen the rights of the minority religious community.…

On Saturday, the CSI co-sponsored 2nd All-Iraqi Christian Leadership Conference issued an eight-point appeal urging the Baghdad government to help Iraq’s dwindling minority community survive inside the country. Convening on Saturday, June 26 just…

at 18th Annual Assyrian Food Festival, San Jose, CA Bring the whole family and join us in celebrating the 18th Annual Assyrian Food Festival: Unveiling a New Generation! This two-day event, open 11am-9pm, will feature traditional Assyrian food (real kabobs!); live music, dancing, and…

For the first time in Iraq modern history, a cultural magazine devotes an issue to discuss the identity of Iraq Christians and the challenges facing them with an elite of intellectual and Christians religious figures inside and outside the country with feedback from Muslim intellectuals.…

Daily News with wires Seeking to update the government’s terminology for the 21st century, Turkey’s chief negotiator for European Union affairs has announced a decision to use the term “different belief groups” instead of “gayrimüslim” (non-Muslim) in official EU correspondence.…

Despite the relative calm that has settled over Mosul, Iraq since the May 2 bombing of buses carrying university students into the capital from towns nearby, fear hangs over the remaining Christian population of the diocese. According to Chorbishop Philip…

The Chaldean Federation of America is deeply saddened to announce the passing of community activist and leader Professor of Law Dr. Hekmat Dawood Hakeem BORN IN: Telkaif, Nineveh, Iraq (December 18, 1948 – June 22, 2010)…

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Steve Pardo / The Detroit News Refugees from Iraq can again settle in southeastern Michigan, provided they have relatives or at least friends in the area.…

BY STACEY VANOSKA THE Assyrian Universal Alliance has announced that the Assyrian Genocide Monument will be unveiled on August 7.…

Associated Press DETROIT (AP) – The U.S. State Department is changing a 2-year-old policy that limited refugee resettlement to the Detroit area to those with close relatives because of Michigan’s struggling economy.…

Some 40 Iraqi asylum seekers deported from Britain have arrived in Baghdad, the UK’s third deportation in a week. It took place despite protests from international refugee agencies who had called for the flights to be suspended, saying Iraq is still not safe enough.…

Photo: B. Heger/UNHCR Iraqis crowd Syria’s immigration centre MADRID, 20 June 2010 (IRIN) – Refugee officials and rights groups have urged a number of European countries not to forcibly repatriate Iraqi asylum seekers,…

by Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq) June 19th, 20100 Comments The history of Christianity in Iraq dates back to the first century BC. But after the U.S. invasion in 2003, many Christians fled their homeland and have found refuge in Syria.…

By: Weekly Staff YEREVAN (A.W.)—A delegation representing the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) attended the third convention of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Party (PUK), which kicked off on June 1 in the Suleimanieh area of Iraqi Kurdistan.…

The Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) – Australia Chapter is pleased to announce the commencement of the third phase of its plan to erect the genocide memorial at Fairfield, Australia, honouring the memory of the victims of the Assyrian genocide…

Cordially invites all Assyrian organizations & individuals in Australia and Abroad to attend the Unveiling of the Assyrian Genocide Monument Dedicated to the Memory of the Victims of the Assyrian Genocide Committed by the Ottoman Empire…