Tag: Assyrian International News Agency
Eastern Patriarchs Deplore Regional Violence
Daily Star, Lebanon - 2/7/14 BEIRUT -- The patriarchs of Eastern churches Tuesday deplored raging violence in Iraq and Syria that has caused massive displacement of ... Read More
5 Assyrians, Including Two Nuns, Missing in Mosul
1/7/14 Mosul, Iraq (AINA) -- The Assyrian television channel Ishtar TV is reporting that 5 Assyrians have gone missing in Mosul. Two Chaldean nuns from ... Read More
Assyrians in U.S. Rally for Assyrians in Iraq
23/6/14 (AINA) -- Assyrians in the United States held demonstrations in three cities on Friday in support of Assyrians in Mosul, Iraq, and other areas ... Read More
The Religious Cleansing of Iraq’s Christians
By Lela Gilbert Fox News - 21/6/14 Just a year ago, after months of bombings, shootings and kidnappings, Baghdad's Monsignor Pios Cacha made a grim prediction. ... Read More
Assyrians and Christians Under Attack in Iraq and Syria
By Stephen Starr http://www.irishtimes.com - 19/6/14 With extremists battling for control of Iraq's largest oilfield on Tuesday, upping the stakes in a burgeoning war against the ... Read More
ISIS Cuts Off Water, Electricity, Destroys Churches
19/6/14 (AINA) -- Sources in Tikrit and Mosul have told AINA that ISIS has cut off water and electricity to some parts of the cities. ... Read More
Christians and Other Religious Minorities in Iraq Living in Sectarian Hell
By Nuri Kino - June 2014 (AINA) -- Approximately two thousand Assyrians and other Christian Iraqis are living illegally in Sweden since Immigration Minister Billstrom ... Read More
Iraqi Christians Flee Homes Amid Militant Push
17/6/14 ALQOSH, Iraq (AP) -- Over the past decade, Iraqi Christians have fled repeatedly to this ancient mountainside village, seeking refuge from violence, then returning ... Read More
ISIS Expands Control, Begins Persecuting Christians in Mosul
13/6/14 (AINA) -- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also known asDa'ash and ISIL) yesterday took control of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. Various ... Read More
The Cleansing of Iraq’s Christians Is Entering Its End Game
11/6/14 The government of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, fell overnight to the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, also called the Islamic State ... Read More
Newly Elected Assyrian Patriarch Wants to Commemorate Genocide Centennial
8/6/14 Damascus (AINA) -- The synod of the Assyrian Orthodox Church made a surprising decision on May 30th to form a committee to prepare for ... Read More
Assyrian Church Helps Small Community
By Nigel Moffiet Manukau Courier - June 2014 Auckland -- A new church is helping forge cultural roots for a small community. The Holy Apostolic ... Read More
ISIS Destroys 3000 Year-old Assyrian Artifacts in Syria
May 2014 (AINA) -- According to a report from the website www.apsa2011.com, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) ... Read More
Christianity is Essential to the Middle East’s Fabric
General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyanwith Pope Twadharos II (WAM) Mohammed bin Rashid receives Pope Tawadros II Nahyan receives John X, Greek Orthodox Patriarch ... Read More
New Egypt’s Charter Enshrines Right of Citizenship for Copts, Muslims
Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria, is seen receiving a memento from Ehab Hamouda, Egyptian Ambassador to UAE, during his press conference in Abu Dhabi ... Read More
Iraq’s Vanishing Christians
By Salah Nasrawi http://weekly.ahram.org.eg - May 2014 As the mass exodus of Iraq's Christians continues, so does the call for ending the plight of those who ... Read More
Syria’s Assyrians Threatened By Extremists
Syrian and Iraqi Assyrian Christians women celebrate their new year in Damascus with folk dances and songs, April 1, 2004 (photo by REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri). By ... Read More
Syriac Gazetter Preserves Endangered Middle East Christian Cultures
David A. Michelson, assistant professor of the history of Christianity at Vanderbilt University and general editor of Syriaca.org www.newswise.com - 27/4/14 Key moments in the ... Read More
Hundreds Commemorate Genocide in Diyarbakir, Turkey
A boy stands near the Monument of Common Conscience during the genocide commemoration in Diyarbakir. (Photo by Scout Tufankjian)A boy stands near the Monument of ... Read More
Christians Face Disaster in Iraq: Patriarch Sako
Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako - Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and Primate of the Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Church 27/4/14 Kirkuk (AFP) -- Iraq's dwindling Christian ... Read More
She Survived the Turkish Genocide, But Lost Her Assyrian Identity
Ashur Shirsha - 24/4/14 (AINA) -- In 1974, at the height of the Kurdish insurrection in north Iraq, a woman knocked on the door of ... Read More