The emigration of Iraqi Christians is no longer a matter concerning a single community, nor merely a religious or social issue. It has become a serious indicator of the depth of the national crisis Iraq has endured for years.
Los Angeles -- Richard Dimitri, the character actor and comedian best known for playing a pair of twins in Mel Brooks's 1970s television spoof When Things Were Rotten and for memorable supporting turns in films such as Johnny Dangerously and Let It Ride, has died. He was 83.
Detroit will soon give a permanent nod to one of its long-hidden cultural engines. A new Michigan Historical Marker to be placed along Seven Mile Road will formally identify the strip as Chaldean Town, recognizing the neighborhood that, for much of the 20th century, served as the cultural and economic heart of Detroit's Chaldean community.
A new book titled The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath (1908--1923), edited by Taner Akçam, Theodosios Kyriakidis, and Kyriakos Chatzikyriakidis, brings together interdisciplinary scholarship examining the destruction of Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christian communities during the final decades of the Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic.
Schools and public institutions were shut in north Syria's Aleppo on Wednesday, as sporadic clashes between government troops and Kurdish-led forces continued into their second day, according to state media.
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" -- Matthew 16:26 At the outset, I extend my sincerest congratulations and best wishes to the honorable members of parliament who won the Christian quota seats in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, representing our Chaldean--Syriac--Assyrian people, namely, MP...