Konstantin Sabo rapporterar från Stockholm i närheten av platsen där terrorattacken skedde
Turkish military offensive against PKK guerrillas in the Assyrian area
Bishops Matta Roham and Hazail Soumi suspended from all church services
The Extra ordinary Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church has decided to suspend the bishops Matta Roham and Hazail Suomi from all priestly services, while the other 4 rebellion Bishops are given time to April 30 to sign the written excuse formed by the Synod. If not the...
“Not enough apology by the bishops”
After the Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church Mar Ignatius Afrem II Karim met with 18 bishops in Lebanon on February 16, 2017, the General Secretariat of the Holy Synod issued a statement on February 17 about the apology of the six rebellious bishops to their...
The six rebellious bishops backpedal, ask for forgiveness from patriarch
BREAKING: I have not signed the letter from the synod
Archbishop Abdulahad Gallo Shabo to the Swedish television: ” I say it openly on television. We are all with the Patriarch but we are not With those who lie. It is not okay that they wrote my name there without informing me" Bishop Abdulahad Gallo Shabo confirmed that...
28 members of the Synod support Patriarch Karim
Statment Issued by the Fathers of the Holy Synod of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
Six bishops denounce Patriarch Karim’s authority
On February 8, 2017, a group of six Syrian Orthodox bishops issued a joint statement where they totally denounce the supremacy and authority of their Patriarch Afrem II Karim. They also refuse to accept his decisions retroactively From the day he was concentrated...
KRG prevents NPU soldiers from returning back to the Nineveh Plains
Jameel al-Jameel, member of the Nineveh Plains Protection Units, NPU, tells about the recent Kurdish abuses of power towards the members of NPU. When visiting their families in Nohadra (Duhok) or Arbil the NPU soldiers are prevented from returning back to the Nineveh...
ACE on European Parliament resolution to freeze Turkey negotiations
Today the European Parliament passed a resolution with vast majority which recommends the European Commission to freeze the membership negotiations with Turkey. Attiya Gamri, President of the Assyrian Confederation of Europe (ACE), comments the EUP decision, which was...
Turkey’s only Assyrian mayor deposed
Februniye Akyol and Ahmet Turk, elected co-mayors of Mardin Metropolitan Municipality, were today deposed and replaced by a so-called Qayyum, guardian, which is the governor of the city,appointed by the government. Turkish authorities continue to dismiss elected...
Assyrian lawyer harassed by Kurdish security in Syria
Assyrian lawyer Riyad Lahdo Ado from Derik (Arabic Malikiyeh) was kept in Kurdish custody 24 hours before he was released on Tuesday November 15. The reason he was interrogated and harassed is that he has an old land dispute with two Kurdish lawyers, where he has been...
NPU in the liberation of the Nineveh Plains
Assyrian politician Mr. Yacoob G. Yaco from the leadership of Zowaa tells about todays participation of the Assyrian force NPU in the liberation of Assyrian towns of Bartella, Baghdad, Karamlesh etc from ISIS, after the Iraqi Army started the liberation of Mosul in...
Passing away of Mar Hanna Zora, the Chaldean bishop of Canada, in Georgia
Assyrian villages in Khabour, Syria occupied by kurdish YPG-militia
In february 2015 the Assyrian Khabour area was attacked by the Islamic State (IS) terrorists. The IS attack was a reply to a deliberate provocation from the kurdish YPG militia. The 35 Assyrian villages located along the Khabour river were emptied after the attack. A...
Turkish jets attack PKK in Assyrian village in Nahla
Today Turkish jets started to attack Kurdish PKK guerilla, hiding in the Assyrian area of Nahla in northern Iraq, in the agricultural fields of Balmond. No casualties are reported. Yet another proof of PKK pulling the Turkish fire on Assyrian soil.
NPU liberated a village on the Nineveh Plains
The Assyrian force The Nineveh Plains Protection Units managed today to liberate the Shabak village of Badaneh in the vicinity of Baghdede - the biggest Assyrian town on the Nineveh Plains, with aerial aid by the coalition forces. This was done without any...
Assyriska i ekonomisk kris – Igen
Ordförande Sargon Demirdag intervjuas om Assyriskas ekonomiska kris.
Suicide attack in Qamishli near Patriarch Afrem II
Halef Halef dömd till fängelse och miljonskadestånd
Halef Halef, vid gripandet i februari 2015 ordförande för kyrkostyrelsen i biskop Benyamin Ataş stift, dömdes på fredagen till 3,5 års fängelse för grovt bedrägeri och grov urkundsförfalskning. Han måste också återbetala 7,3 miljoner kr till Försäkringskassan och...
A heavy explosion in Midyat, TurAbdin
Midyat, considered to be the capital of Assyrians in TurAbdin, has this morning been damaged after a powerful explosion that occurred outside a police headquarters. According to our private sources in Midyat, suicide bombers with one-ton bomb drove nearby the building...
Cem Özdemir National Chairman of the party alliance 90/the greens. At a meeting after the recognition of the Genocide from 1915
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The bill of the Genocide 1915 passed through the German Parliament unanimously, except for 1 Turkish female MP who voted against and another vote laid down. Motionen om folkmordet Seyfo röstades igenom det tyska parlamentet enhälligt, med undantag av en nedlagd röst...