Monthly Archives: April 2011

ISTANBUL – Radikal A neighborhood known as ’Son Durak’ (Last Stop) in Istanbul’s KurtuluÅŸ area is a way station for Iraqis who have fled the Iraq war since 2003. The community, also called…

AGI) Rome – The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, Gregory III Laham, sided with Bashar al-Assad opposing sanctions on Syria. Speaking at a conference organised…

Four Iraqi Children Transported To Jordan To Receive Life Saving Heart Surgeries Flowing into the Dead Sea, the River Jordan is undoubtedly a major source of water…

Coming together in the face of all odds! For long people have been asking about the alternative, now the activists are fielding one.…

Posted by ACN News Iraq: 80% of young people wish to leave An interview with Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa – the Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, in northern Iraq.…

Erbil, Iraq, Apr 27, 2011 / 01:51 pm (CNA).- A leading voice in the Iraqi Church believes his community can still play a role in reconciling the country, despite the continued threats and attacks that have decimated its Christian population.…

By John Pontifex A CURFEW failed to deter Christians in Mosul who walked for up to an hour to attend a packed Good Friday service in one of Iraq’s most dangerous cities.…

A murdered mechanic’s wife and three children sat next to his coffin on Tuesday. The pews were packed inside St. Peter’s Chaldean Catholic Church as friends and family gathered to say goodbye to Jalal Abou, 63.…

Dear Joe, It is with a heavy heart that I wanted to let you know that my father Herb Peters passed away peacefully on Sunday surrounded by the people who loved him the most: his wife, his children and his grandchildren.…

Syriac Christians from the diaspora celebrated Easter in Mardin on Sunday in an event that provided a chance for many to return to their homeland for the first time in 40 years.…

In view of the painful incidents that have happened to our people, the Christians in Egypt, the Copts, it was decided to sit in the European Parliament in a month’s time…

Egyptian Christian worshipers take part in a ceremony at the Coptic Hanging Church in the old Cairo area of Cairo, Egypt on Easter eve Saturday, April 23, 2011. (Khalil Hamra / AP)…

Joe Abou Shot At His Point Loma Auto Shop Last Monday EL CAJON, Calif. — Friends and family of a slain auto repair shop owner paid their respects at his wake on Monday.…

A bomb exploded near a church in central Baghdad on Easter Sunday, wounding four policemen and three others.…

Turkish flag burning and torchlight procession in Yerevan to commemorate Armenian Genocide News.am – YEREVAN. – A traditional meeting and torchlight procession toward the…

AP | Iraqi Christians are searched as they queue up to attend Easter services at Virgin Mary Chaldean Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 24, 2011. The Chaldean…

Good Friday and other Easter processions have been cancelled in Syria as a result of violent street unrest.…

BAGHDAD – An improvised explosive device detonated near a church and a firefight broke out in front of another here Easter Sunday, further raising safety concerns for…

(AGI) Vatican City – Talking on the Vatican Radio, the Chaldean Patriarchal Vicar of Baghdad, Monsignor Shlemon Warduni, has said “things in Iraq are getting worse and…

With violence still a threat, Iraqi Christians observed Easter from behind blast walls that have turned many churches into fortresses, or at home. At St. Joseph’s in…