Tag: News Agency
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
Solemn water blessing ceremony held in front of Saints Cyril and Methodius Monument in Sofia
May 2014 Sofia. Priests with the Bulgarian Orthodox Church took part in the solemn water blessing ceremony in front of the Monument to Saints Cyril ... Read More
Vatican was hiding Croatian war criminal; CIA confirms
By Milos Mitrovic – Belgrade - April / May 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Recently declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents confirm decades long suspicions ... 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
American Christians Pledge Solidarity With Persecuted Christians in Egypt, Iraq and Syria
8/5/14 On Wednesday, May 7, history is being made. On behalf of the suffering churches of Egypt, Iraq and Syria, a broad array of American ... 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
99 Years of Turkish Genocide
In this 1919 photo released by the Armenian National Archives shows victims of the "Great Slaughter" in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The sign ... Read More
Turkish PM Does Not Acknowledge Armenian Genocide, But Sends Condolences to Families
http://www.armradio.am - 24/4/14 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has highlighted the "shared pain" endured during the 1915 events in an unexpected statement April 23 on ... Read More
Kurds and the Armenian Genocide
By Deniz Serinci Rudaw - 24/4/14 COPENHAGEN -- What role did the Kurds play in the Armenian genocide under the Ottomans? On April 24 every year, ... Read More