Monthly Archives: April 2015

by officially Invited the government of Armenia, the Assyrian delegation attended the official event in the global forum against genocide held in Yerevan between April 22-23 under the slogan “remember and call”. and also participated in official celebrations organized by Armenia on April 24 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the genocide.…

UNESCO Media Advisory no. 2015 – 05 Baghdad: 29 April 2015 –World Press Freedom Day held on 3 May of every year is a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists…

“Without a research, a country cannot be accused of committing genocide” Baku – APA. The Swedish government has passed a decision on the groundlessness of the Swedish parliament’s resolution dated 2010 on the so-called Armenian genocide without conducting a research, Turkish newspaper Milliyet reported.…

Reporting by: Dilshad Ahmed Assyrian fighters in Tel Temir. Photo: ARA News Qamishli, Syria – General Command of the Kurdish forces of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) said in a statement issued on Wednesday that the Assyrian commander of Haras al-Khabur, David Jendo, was assassinated last week and his companion injured in a terrorist attack…

john_allen-2 John L. Allen Jr.Associate editor? @JohnLAllenJr John L. Allen Jr., associate editor, specializes in coverage of the Vatican. FULL BIO Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart, head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archparchy of Aleppo, vows not to let Christians disappear from Syria. (CNS photo/John Thavis) By John L. Allen Jr.…

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Basrah, 29 April 2015 – UNESCO and its partners celebrated today with students and teachers the opening of the newly constructed Migrant Birds Intermediate School for internally displaced persons at Al-Souq Al Asry Camp in Basrah, Iraq. The opening of the school…

Iraqi Gypsy families gather outside their shack that serves as their home in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya, Jan. 4, 2006. (photo by REUTERS/Imad Al-Khozai) The Gypsy village of Fawar is located about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Diwaniyah. Prior to 2003, Fawar had strong links with its surroundings. However today, visiting this…

The draft House bill carves out 25 percent of anti-Islamic State funding for the peshmerga and Sunni tribes. By: Julian Pecquet, Congressional Correspondent for Al-Monitor Al-Monitor Republican war-policy writers are demanding that the United States recognize Kurdish…

Baghdad: 29 April 2015 –World Press Freedom Day held on 3 May of every year is a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the…

Tragedy is bringing Europe and the Middle East together… in interesting ways. Elisabeth Braw It is afternoon recess at school. Children are chatting away in Arabic and Assyrian, a language spoken by the Middle Eastern Assyrian Christian minority, congregating around games and drawing pictures. But their snack gives away that there’s something…

Banner Icon Middle East history 2015 marks 100 years since the genocide began against the Armenians and the other Christian minorities in modern Turkey. About 2 million Armenians, Assyrians/Syriacs/Chaldeans*, and Greeks were murdered in the then Ottoman Empire. Swedish-Syriac comedian Ümit Dag exclusively portrays the fate…

By John L. Allen Jr. Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart, head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archparchy of Aleppo, vows not to let Christians disappear from Syria. (CNS photo/John Thavis) While most of the world celebrated Easter 2015 with church services and family get-togethers, Christians in the Syrian city of Aleppo spent the holiday digging through…

On April 25 the RA NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov received the Foreign Assyrian Delegation members Vasily Shumanov, Norman Solkha, Shiba Mandu, Sabri Atman, Arsen Mikhailov, Edvard Nadirshah and the representative of the Assyrian community in Armenia Anahit Khosroeva.…

By Elizabeth Kendal, ASSIST News Service AUSTRALIA (ANS – April 23, 2015) — On the night of 24 April 1915 the Young Turk government arrested over 200 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople (Istanbul) and dragged them off to prisons in central Anatolia (modern day Turkey). This event, known today as Red Sunday, is…

ABN 30 508 399 430 “Organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council since 2011”. Assyrian Aid Society delivered a statement at the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Peoples on 23/04/2015. Members of AAS-Australia, Shoushan Tower and…

By Greg Botelho, CNN (CNN)Several of the world’s worst terrorist groups, like ISIS and Al-Shabaab, aim to create societies governed by strict, distorted versions of Sharia law. That means anyone who doesn’t subscribe to such extremist views are enemies and in danger — Christians included.…

Orthodox Patriarch John X of Antioch A Greek Orthodox Church leader bemoaned the global apathy shown toward two Syrian bishops who were kidnapped two years ago, one of whom is his brother. Speaking ahead of the anniversary of the abductions on April 22, 2013, Orthodox…

Documentary filmmaker Reinhard Lorenz holds a photo of children orphaned by the Ottoman Empire’s Armenian/Christian genocide. Lorenz used archival still photos and film clips in his documentary tracing the history of the area. (Greg Sorber/Albuquerque Journal) By Rick Nathanson / Journal Staff Writer…

The World War I genocide of Assyrians of all Christian denominations has become an integral part of the life and collective consciousness of the Assyrian nation until the present day. The extermination took many forms and methods within the conditions and political realities of different conflicts experienced by the Middle Eastern countries and…

We are grateful to Armenia for speaking about the Assyrian Genocide, Assyrian member of Iran Majlis, Ivnatan Beyt Kolia, said, according to the Alik daily newspaper of the Iranian Armenian community. “Here pass hundred years since the horrible Genocide perpetrated by the Ottomans against the Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks. Still, they have not only failed…