Tag: Assyrian International News Agency
Christian City in Syria Attacked By “Freedom Fighters”
By Brad Hoff http://www.globalresearch.ca 13/2/14 This past Thursday, February 6, monasteries and churches in the ancient Christian city of Saidnaya held special celebrations for the ... Read More
Directive From History Drives Discrimination Against Christians in the Middle East
Heritage Daily - 2/4/14 Christian's worshipers in parts of the Middle East, especially Syria are experiencing discrimination driven by a directive issued over 1300 years ago. ... Read More
Will a Province for Assyrians Stop Their Exodus From Iraq?
Sargon Slewa By Peter BetBasoo and Nuri Kino - 28/1/14(AINA) -- On January 21 the Iraq Council of Ministers approved a plan to establish three ... Read More
Syria’s Assyrian Christians Find Refuge With Turkish Neighbours
By Jane Burgess http://themedialine.org - 28/1/14 MIDYAT, Turkey -- Miydat's Assyrian Orthodox community is still encumbered with festive cookies and candied nuts from their Christmas festivities. ... Read More
Christians and Kurds Form Coalition in Syria
Ann Buwalda Jubilee Campaign - January 2014 Jubilee Campaign USA and Jubilee Campaign Netherlands are jointly announcing with Law & Liberty Trust the alliance of the Syriacs ... Read More
Nineveh Province for Christians in Iraq? Let’s Wait and See
The Christian Mar Mattai monastry overlooking the Nineveh plain (Photo by Judit Neurink). By Judit Neurink http://rudaw.net - January 2014 ERBIL, Kurdistan Region -- "It is ... Read More
The World’s Most Ancient Christian Communities Are Being Destroyed — and No One Cares
August 26, 2013: Bishop-General Macarius (right), a Coptic Orthodox leader, walks around the damaged Evangelical Church in Minya, south of Cairo (REUTERS/Louafi Larbi). By Michael ... Read More
Swedish Assyrian Organization Opens Scholarship Program
18/1/14 Stockholm (AINA) -- Assyrians Without Borders (AWB), based in Stockholm, has announced the opening of their scholarships program for Assyrian students in Iraq, Syria, ... Read More
Coptic Bishop Anba Makarios Escapes Assassination Attempt in Egypt
1/10/13 (AINA) -- Bishop Anba Makarios of Minya was the target of an unsuccessful assassination attempted this morning. The Bishop was driving into the ... Read More
Muslims Expel 6 Christian Brothers From Village in Egypt
30/9/13 (AINA) -- Violence against Egyptian Christians erupted yesterday in the village of Zakaria, located in the Upper Egyptian province of Minya. Zakaria has a ... Read More
Syrian Jihadist Rebels Murder Assyrian Man for Being Christian
28/9/13 Al-Thawrah, Syria (AINA) -- A 26 year-old Assyrian man, Ninar Odisho, was murdered on Saturday, September 21, in the afternoon in the city of ... Read More
Syrian Bishop Warns Intervention Could Spark ‘World War’
(AFP) -- A Syrian Chaldean Catholic bishop on Monday warned that an armed intervention in Syria could unleash a "world war", while the Vatican's official ... Read More
Coptic Pope Blasts Muslim Brotherhood, US, EU
19/8/13 (AINA) -- Since ex-president Morsy's ouster on July 3, attacks on Egyptian Christians by members of the Muslim Brotherhood have taken place in most ... Read More
Syrian Rebels Destroy Orthodox Church in Al-Thawrah
10/8/13 (AINA) -- The Antiochian Orthodox church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus was a landmark of al-Thawrah (also known as al-Tabqah). It was an impressive, modern structure with ... Read More
Assyrian Martyrs Day Commemorated Worldwide
August 7th is Assyrian Martyrs day. Today we remember one of the darkest moments in the history of humanity. On this day, hundreds of innocent ... Read More
Syrian Rebels to Assyrians: Convert to Islam to Keep Your Jobs
7/8/13 Al Thawrah, Syria (AINA) -- Accounts by Assyrian refugees from al-Thawrah (also known as al-Tabqah) reveal the real face of the Islamist undercurrent within the Syrian opposition. ... Read More
Assyrian Village in Syria Attacked By Muslims
31/7/13 Hassaka, Syria (AINA) -- The Assyrian village of Tel Hormizd was attacked on Saturday, July 27 at about midnight. Fifty Arab Muslims on motorcycles ... Read More
Coptic Pope Awards Assyrian Chorepiscopos
30/6/13 Vienna (AINA) -- In his second overseas trip since his inauguration in November 2012, Egypt's Coptic Patriarch Pope Tawadros II visited Vienna on May ... Read More
Islamists Warn Christians From Demonstrating to Topple Egyptian President
15/6/13 Mary Abdelmassih Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) -- The youth-led Tamarod (rebel) Initiative has collected more than their targeted 15,000,000 signatures calling for a ... Read More
Syria’s Christian Community Under Attack
30/3/13 Beirut -- The plight of Syria's Christian community has returned to the fore once again this week after opposition forces claimed that the Assad ... Read More
Syria’s Christians Fear Iraq Scenario
8/3/13 Beirut -- Former President Hafez Al-Assad did not rule in the name of minorities, but in the name of the secular Ba'ath party. Contrary ... Read More