Tag: Nineveh Plains
Palm Sunday celebrations mark revival of life in Qaraqosh
The Palm Sunday celebrations saw thousands of Christians take to the streets of Qaraqosh (World Watch Monitor) Wordlwatchmonitor - 27/3/18 For many Christian families in ... Read More
Assyrian Americans Call for Iraqi Government Control of Nineveh Plains
The Nineveh Plains area in north Iraq. ( AINA) AINA - 24/10/17 Chicago (AINA) -- The Assyrian American National Federation (AANF), an umbrella organization for Assyrians ... Read More
Assyrian Church of the East to Boycott EU Conference on Future of Nineveh Plains
http://www.edmontonjournal.com AINA - 29/6/17 Brussels (AINA) -- Sources close to the Assyrian Church of the East confirmed to Assyria-TV on Wednesday that the church will ... Read More
Church Announces Survival Plan for Iraq’s Suffering Christians
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/ By Murcadha O Flaherty and John Newton Aid to the Church in Need - 1/2/17 Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil has unveiled plans to provide ... Read More
Assyrian Organization Congratulates Trump, Calls Attention to ISIS Genocide
President-elect Donald Trump (R) and Vice President-elect Mike Pence. 11/11/16 (AINA) -- The following letter was sent to President-elect Donald Trump by the American chapter ... Read More
The Genocide of Assyrians and Yazidis and the Next American President
St. Barbara Assyrian church in Karemlis, Iraq was bombed by ISIS on Sunday, October 10. AINA - Nahren Anweya - 12/10/16 (AINA) -- In November ... Read More
Dutch Parliament Holds Hearing on Assyrians in Iraq
AINA - 8/10/16 The Hague (AINA) -- A hearing on the situation of Assyrians in Iraq was held at the Dutch Parliament on Thursday. Participants ... Read More
Assyrian Bishop: We Denounce Kurdish Curricula and Abuses
AssyrianTV - September 2016 His excellence the Syriac Orthodox bishop of Gozarto, Syria, Maurice Amsih is visiting Sweden. Assyria TV asked him for an interview ... Read More
Swedes Demand Assyrian Autonomy to Make Up for Daesh Genocide
© AFP 2016/ MOHAMMED SAWAF Sputniknews - August 2016 After having established a quasi-state in the Middle East, Daesh has been guilty of many evils, including persecution of ... Read More
Senator McCain Sends Letter on Assyrians to Kurdish President
AINA - 28/5/16 (AINA) -- Former Republican presidential candidate and current Senator from Arizona, John McCain, sent a letter to Kurdish President Massoud Barzani regarding ... Read More
Assyrian Delegation in Washington to Press for Aid
Assyrian delegation visits Washington. ( AINA) 19/5/16 (AINA) -- A delegation of Assyrian Americans visited Washington on Wednesday to meet with government officials regarding the ... Read More
Assyrians in North Iraq Pressured to Sign Petition for Kurdish Independence
AINA- 15/5/16 Dohuk, Iraq (AINA) -- Local and internally displaced Assyrians living in north Iraq are being pressured by Kurdish officials to sign a petition ... Read More
Australia Recognizes Crimes Committed By ISIS Against Assyrians As Genocide
Pictures attributed to the Islamic State (ISIS) show the 4th century Assyrian St. Behnam monastery being blown up. Assyrian Universal Alliance - 2/5/16 In a historic and ... Read More
ISIS Bomb Assyrian Homes, Monastery in Iraq – Cemeteries Vandalized
26/12/15 (AINA) -- Two days ago ISIS bombed ten Assyrian homes and a monastery in the Assyrian village of Tel Kepe in north Iraq. The ... Read More
Assyrian Church Prelates Visit the Historic Village of Sarsing in Northern Iraq
6/6/15 Iraq: Prelates of the Assyrian Church of the East paid a pastoral visit today to the historic Assyrian village of Sarsing in the Dohuk ... Read More
ISIS Burns 80 year old Assyrian Woman in North Iraq
27/5/15 (AINA) -- According to a report by the BasNews agency, ISIS burned an 80 year-old Assyrian woman to death in a village southeast of ... Read More
Assyrians Usher in Year 6765 With Trepidation
Assyrians celebrate year 6765 at the Assyrian new year celebration in Fairfield, Australia. 2/4/15 (AINA) -- Assyrians throughout the world ushered in the 6765th year ... Read More
Outbreak of Chicken Pox, Lice and Scabies in Assyrian Refugee Camp in Arbel
Ankawa Mall, an uncompleted building in Ankawa, Iraq, now housing nearly 1,800 Assyrian refugees. 24/3/15 (AINA) -- Eight months after ISIS drove nearly 200,000 Assyrians ... Read More
Iraqi Assyrians Arm Themselves For The Fight Against ISIS
By Matthew Vickery http://www.mintpressnews.com - October 2014 TEL SKUF, Iraq -- Waesh Toma sits upright and ready, his eyes scanning the Iraqi desert horizon as the ... Read More
What Next for Iraq’s Christians?
http://www.economist.com - 22/7/14 Apart from praying and lamenting, is there anything else that concerned outsiders, such as the Western churches, should be doing to help Christians ... Read More