Tag: Assyrian International News Agency
Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights Issues Report on Christian Persecution in Syria
The St. Odisho Assyrian Church in Tel Tal, Syria, was bombed by ISIS. AINA - 23/6/18 (AINA) -- The Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights has released a ... Read More
Swedish Foreign Minister Addresses Assyrian Community on Genocide Recognition
Swedish foreign minister Margot Wallström being interviewed by Assyria-TV. ( AINA) AINA - 14/6/18 Stockholm (AINA) -- Swedish foreign minister Margot Wallström has confirmed the current ... Read More
Cologne Orders Armenian Genocide Memorial Removed
( Haypress) AINA - Bar Daisan - 18/4/18 Cologne, Germany (AINA) -- A memorial dedicated to the 1915 genocide of the Armenians stands in a prominent ... Read More
The Unethical Prosecution of an Assyrian Attorney
Attorney Robert DeKelaita speaking at a rally. AINA - 14/1/18 On January 2, 2018, Judge Goldsmith from the federal court in Michigan ordered the release ... Read More
Assyrian Umbrella Organization Granted NGO Status in EU
Ms Attiya Gamri, a former member of a Dutch provincial parliament, is the current president of the Assyrian Confederation of Europe. AINA - 31/12/17 Brussels (AINA) ... Read More
Unrecognized Genocides Conference Held At Adelphi University
( Julian McBride) Painting titled Assyrian Woman and Child, by Julian McBride. ( Julian McBride) Julian McBride, CEO of the Row Initiative, speaking at the ... Read More
Turkey Says it Cancelled Decision to Seize Assyrian Churches and Monasteries
The Assyrian St. Gabriel Monastery in Mardin, Turkey, established in 397 A.D. AINA - July 2017 (AINA) -- The Doğan News Agency reported yesterday that ... Read More
Assyrian Football Teams in Sweden Tell of a Changing Community
Assyriska FF in Södertälje, Sweden was founded in 1974 by Assyrian refugees from the Middle East. ( Assyriska) AINA - 8/7/17 Stockholm (AINA) -- The ... Read More
Assyrian, Armenian, Greek Genocide Commemoration Held in Glendale, California
AINA - April 2017 (AINA) -- The city of Glendale, a suburb of Los Angeles, California, hosted commemoration events on the Turkish genocide of Assyrians, ... Read More
Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Speaks on the Future of Christians in the Middle East
AINA - Bar Daisan - 14/3/17 Munich (AINA) -- The future of Christians in the Middle East was the subject of a panel discussion at ... Read More
Understanding the Christian Crisis in the Middle East
ANIA - 13/1/17 (AINA) -- Elizabeth Kendal, an international religious liberty analyst and advocate, has published a book titled After Saturday Comes Sunday: Understanding the ... Read More
The Winds of Change Are Blowing in Europe
AINA - 21/12/16 (AINA) -- If 2015 in Europe was most memorable for the hundreds of thousands of refugees who traipsed across the continent, 2016 ... Read More
First Assyrian Elected to Local Government in Victoria, Australia
Joseph Haweil AINA - 28/11/16 (AINA) -- Joseph Haweil, a prominent member of the Assyrian-Australian community, has become the first Australian of Assyrian ancestry to ... Read More
In Continuing Purge, Turkey Removes Only Assyrian Mayor
Februniye Akyol, the first Assyrian mayor in Turkey, was removed today by Turkish authorities. AINA - 18/11/16 Mardin, Turkey (AINA) -- Turkey removed the two ... Read More
Assyrians Signal Their Intention to Return to Their Homes in Mosul
Aid to the Church in Need - 5/11/16 The capture of the city in Northern Iraq by Daesh (IS) in June 2014, led to thousands fleeing ... Read More
Assyrian Delegation Meets Australian FM
Julie Bishop (C), the Australian minister for Foreign Affairs, meets an Assyrian delegation. Assyrian Universal Alliance - 21/10/16 On Thursday, 20 October 2016, a delegation led ... Read More
ISIS Destroy Assyrian Church in Iraq
St. Barbara Assyrian Church in Karemlis, Iraq was bombed by ISIS on Sunday, October 10. Karemlis (center) is in the Nineveh Plains north and east ... Read More
Assyrian Women’s Conference Issues Appeal for Aid
AINA - October 2016 Brussels (AINA) -- An International Assyrian Women's Conference was held in Brussels on September 29. Representatives from Europe and the Middle East ... Read More
Assyrians in Europe to Gather for Inaugural Convention
AINA- September 2016 Stockholm (AINA) -- Assyrians in Europe will gather for a pan-European convention for the first time on October 8 and 9. The ... Read More
Stop the Cancer of Islamic State – Urges Iraq’s Chaldean Patriarch
http://www.asianews.it/ Catholic News Service - August 2016 BAGHDAD -- Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad called for a united and strong stance -- by Muslims and ... Read More
Iraq’s Remaining Christians Promise to Stay and Rebuild
By Hannah Tooley - AINA- 8/8/16 Christians still in Iraq are pledging to stay in the country and help rebuild it after Islamic State (IS) ... Read More