(AINA) – His Holiness Dinkha IV, the Patriarch of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, has send a letter to the United Nations expressing alarm and concern over the anti-Christian violence in the Middle East. Weiterlesen
Turkey (AINA) — A history textbook used in tenth grade high school classes in Turkish schools portray Assyrians as traitors and presents distorted historical information about Turkeys most ancient indigenous population. The issue was highlighted in 2011 by Erol Dora, an ethnic Assyrian and member of the Turkish national assembly. Following meetings between Dora and the Turkish ministry of education, the ministry issued a statement promising to revise the controversial texts in the next printing of the book in 2012. Weiterlesen
Aleppo (AINA) — The new Assyrian Quarter in Aleppo has come under attack for the second time in five days. Last Sunday a car bomb exploded in front of an Assyrian social services complex. No one was injured in that attack. Weiterlesen
Aleppo (AINA) — A suicide car bomber detonated his bomb in front of an Assyrian charity complex in Aleppo on Sunday. No one was hurt in the explosion but there was heavy damage to complex, which includes a home for the elderly, a hospital and a grammar school. The Assyrian Archbishop of Aleppo issued the following statement: Weiterlesen
The site of Ziyaret Tepe is an ancient Assyrian provincial capital on the river Tigris in southeastern Turkey, 60 km east of Diyarbakir. As an archaeological site it is of exceptional importance, as it is a provincial capital of the Assyrian empire. Since 1997, an international team has been exploring the ancient site of Ziyaret Tepe and is led by Prof. Timothy Matney of the University of Akron, Ohio (Project Director) and in collaboration Professor McGinnis of University of Cambridge and Field Director of the British Expedition to Ziyaret Tepe. Weiterlesen
Kirkuk, Iraq — At least 150 young people, joined by other faithful, spent today in prayer and fasting to overcome violence, after a bomb exploded in front of the Chaldean cathedral. Weiterlesen
On 14 September 2012, a delegation headed by Mr. Hermiz Shahen, Deputy Secretary General of the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) and Mr. David M. David , President of the Assyrian Australian National Federation met with the Hon. Chris Bowen MP, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship.During which an official letter was presented to the Minister in which explains the tragic and dangerous situation that our people are facing in Iraq and Syria. The AUA proposed a plan of action and resolutions requesting to take the discussion further with the Australian authorities. Weiterlesen
We are the Churches’ leaders of Aleppo meet at the Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo on Friday 24th August 2012, in an extraordinary circumstances, to discuss the current political impasse in Syria and its unprecedented and foretold consequences which are currently unfolding with an ugly magnitude all over Syria and witnessed and suffered by all Syrians and especially Aleppians. Weiterlesen
(AINA) — The final decision of the [Turkish] Supreme Court of Cassation in the legal case of St. Gabriel, ordering it to transfer the lands which the monastery has owned for 14 centuries to the State Treasury marks a major legal scandal. Cynically, it was the same institution which in 1974 ruled against the [non-Muslim] minority foundations in Turkey and has played an important role in intensifying minority problems. The latest ruling, in which the State is designated as the ‚land owner‘ and the ‚other‘ (being St.Gabriel) as the ‚occupier‘ proves that not much has changed in Turkey’s policy towards minorities. The court decision sheds light on an important parameter of the process that has been labeled as „democratization.“ Weiterlesen
WASHINGTON and ZURICH, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Taner Akcam, Professor of History at Clark University, has urged President Obama and his European allies to encourage „Turkey to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, and to follow the post-Holocaust example of Germany by making appropriate compensation for lives and property.“ Weiterlesen