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Syria’s Christian Community Under Attack

March 30, 2013 Featured News

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 regime has targeted churches in the Deir Ezzor region. Websites affiliated with the Syrian opposition posted videos allegedly showing damage to churches in the region as a result of air [...]

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Syria’s Christians Fear Iraq Scenario

March 8, 2013 Featured News

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 to popular belief, the majority of members of his security and political services were not Alawites. In fact, according to the most optimistic estimates, the Alawi sect constitutes around 20 [...]

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Fayoum: Islamic extremists attack Coptic church, wounding pastor

February 17, 2013 Featured News

17/2/13 A crowd, incited by a Salafi leader, attacked the church  of Saint Georgas. The Cross on the dome destroyed, part of the interior and the sacred images devastated. The police witnessed the violence, but did not  intervene. Fr. Domadios saved by a Muslim family. In recent months, extremists  had opened a hole in the [...]

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Egypt’s New Constitution Gives Coptic Christians a Bleak and Unstable Future

December 24, 2012 News

24/12/12 Egyptians have approved a controversial new constitution. According to reports, Egyptians have endorsed the new charter in the two-stage referendum; the approved charter gives Islamists the mandate to decide the future of Egypt which has a considerable Christian population and other minorities. The new constitution drafted by a predominant Islamist group, which excluded the [...]

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Sunni Rebels Occupying Churches, Homes of Syrian Christians

July 30, 2012 Featured News

30/7/2012 www.worldnewstribune.com Assyrian International News Agency LONDON — The Vatican has determined that Sunni rebels were targeting the Christian community in Syria. The Vatican has received reports deemed credible that Sunni rebels financed by Qatar were attacking churches and ordering Christians to leave their homes. The reports, which stemmed from leading Catholic clerics, said the [...]

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The Assyrian Genocide By Ottoman Turkey

July 30, 2012 Featured News

By Hermiz Shahen Family World News Assyrian International News Agency Assyrians are the indigenous people of Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Syria and Lebanon. , who have a history that spans over 7000 years. Today’s Assyrians are the descendants of the ancient Assyrian Empire that was one of the earliest civilizations to emerge in Mesopotamia. The Assyrian [...]

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A New Identity for Middle East Christians

July 19, 2012 News

By Phillip Smyth American Spectator Assyrian International News Agency 18/7/2012 The 20th century was a time in the Middle East when nominally secular dictators espousing notions of pan-Arabism — the ideology of uniting the “Arab World” and downplaying or crushing the different cultural aspects of the region’s innumerable sectarian groups — reigned supreme. However, as [...]

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Egyptian Church Threatens to Withdraw From Constituent Assembly Over Sharia Article

July 6, 2012 Featured News

Assyrian International News Agency 6/7/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church threatened to withdraw its Constituent Assembly representatives Wednesday over concerns the new constitution will not represent minorities. Church leaders discussed the potential withdrawal Wednesday in an all-day meeting, according to Bishop Benjamin of Monufiya. At the heart of the discussion was ongoing debate within the assembly [...]

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German Parliament Resolution Supports Embattled Assyrian Monastery in Turkey

June 20, 2012 Featured News

18/6/2012 Assyrian International News Agency Berlin — The German parliament decides today, on Thursday [June 14, 2012] evening, on an application introduced by the parliamentary groups of the CDU / CSU and FDP for ensuring continued existence of the Syrian Orthodox monastery St. Gabriel in southeast Turkey. The chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary [...]

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The Difference Between Christians and Christians in Syria

June 7, 2012 Featured News

Augin Kurt Haninke Assyrian International News Agency 6/6/2012 (AINA) — It is well known that most Christians in Syria support Assad’s regime because they fear what may come instead, given the experience in Iraq and Egypt. But if the regime falls, only certain Christian groups would benefit, while others would be regarded as traitors by [...]

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Egypt Sentences 12 Coptic Christians to Life in Prison

May 23, 2012 Featured News

Assyrian International News Agency 22/5/2012 On 21 May, Egypt’s State Security Council sentenced 12 Christians to life in prison and acquitted eight Muslims. The Christians were found guilty of sowing public strife, possession of illegal weapons, and killing two Muslims in an April 2011 episode of violence that took place in Minya province, about 220 [...]

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90% of Christians Driven Out of Homs, Syria

March 26, 2012 Featured News

26/3/2012 Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker Assyrian International News Agency President Obama condemned the Syrian government for trying to protect Alawites, Christians, the role of women in society, and all Syrians who oppose Sunni Islamic radicalism. President Obama commented that “I strongly condemn the Syrian government’s unspeakable assault against the people of Homs.” However, [...]

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Christians’ Future in the Iraqi Kurdistan

March 23, 2012 News

23/3/2012 Abdulla Hawez Abdulla Assyrian International News Agency As it becomes clear that one major outcome of the region’s revolutions will be the empowerment of Islamists, the Arab Spring threatens to become a nightmare for the Middle East’s Christian minority. Christians across the Arab world are afraid that a change of regime — specifically one [...]

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300 Muslim Lawyers Storm Egyptian Court, Prevent Lawyers for Christian From Entering

March 16, 2012 News

By Mary Abdelmassih Assyrian International News Agency 16/3/2012 (AINA) — More than 300 Muslim lawyers inside and outside a courthouse in the southern Egyptian province of Assuit today prevented defense lawyer Ahmad Sayed Gabali, who is representing the Christian Makarem Diab, from going into court. Mr. Diab was found guilty of ‘Insulting the Muslim Prophet’ [...]

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20,000 Muslims Attempt to Kill Pastor and Torch Church in Egypt

February 15, 2012 Featured News

By Mary Abdelmassih 15/2/2012 Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) — A mob of nearly 20,000 radical Muslims, mainly Salafis, attempted this evening to break into and torch the Church of St. Mary and St. Abram in the village of Meet Bashar,in Zagazig, Sharqia province. They were demanding the death of Reverend Guirgis Gameel, pastor of [...]

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Egypt and Syria: Two Civilizational Struggles

February 13, 2012 News

13/2/2012 Assyrian International News Agency The rapidly changing Middle East is witnessing convulsions which are indeed revolutionary when it comes to alliances. After all, in Libya you had NATO, Sunni Islamists and a mixture of other forces fighting on the same side against Colonel Gaddafi. Likewise in Syria which is the last remaining major bastion [...]

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Egyptian Bishop Warns of Another Massacre in Nag Hammadi‎

January 3, 2012 Featured News

By Mary Abdelmassih 31/12/2011 Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) — Bishop Kyrillos, the Coptic Orthodox bishop of Nag Hammadi, received last week several threats of attacks to be carried out on churches in Nag Hammadi, either on New Year’s Eve or Christmas Eve on January 6. “I do not want another Nag Hammadi Massacre to [...]

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Fears of ‘unchecked Islamic persecution’ in Iraq

October 31, 2011 News

31/10/2011 A year after the massacre at the Syrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad left 58 dead, an Assyrian news agency is expressing concern about the future of Iraq’s Christian community. “For Assyrians in Iraq, the scheduled departure of U.S. forces at the end of December, 2011 is of great concern,” the Assyrian International News Agency [...]

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Adiyaman Assyrian Priest – “One Cemetery is All We Have Left”

October 11, 2011 News

By Sabri Atman 10/10/2011 We are in the middle of July. Germany did not see the summer season this year. “When did it ever?” can be asked. It is not like the summer season in Mesopotamia. There is windy weather. It is at a point where people are going to start heating their stoves again. [...]

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Assyrian Language Heard Again At Ancient Tushhan

September 1, 2011 News

Assyrian International News Agency 9-1-2011 It has been over two millennia since the Assyrian language was last spoken at Ziyaret Tepe/Tushhan, but during a recent visit by Saliba Ozman, His Grace the Bishop of Mardin and Diyarbakir of the Syriac Orthodox Church (with the scarlet shirt in the photo) and Dairoyo (monk) Yousif Said of [...]

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