AssyriaTimes.com - Assyrian News AgencyLet us unite and gather all these fragments, so noting can be lost.Climbing the Rigi mountain to remember the Assyrian, Armenian and Greek Genocide- July 21, 2008 By Web Team, Seyfo CenterSWITZERLAND - On Sunday, July 6 2008, approximately 100 people from all over the world participated in the climb of the Rigi mountain in Switzerland. The climb was marked by the commemoration of the victims during the Assyrian Genocide of 1915. On top of the mountain there were symbolically a large number of black balloons released with the text: 'Turkey should recognize the Assyrian Genocide'.The program consisted of a short lecture on Saturday evening, the climb on...http://www.assyriatimes.com/engine/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3330 Prof Henry Saggs on Assyrian Continuity- July 16, 2008 The following is the preface written by honorable Professor Henry William Fredrick Saggs for the book Assyrian National Question at the United Nations by Dr. Sargon Dadesho.Civilization has always been under threat from the forces of barbarism. Without a strong arm to defend it, it can be destroyed.From the beginning of the third millennium B.C. the civilization upon which our own is based took root in the plain of the Tigris and Euphrates in south Iraq. In the course of the next two millennia..http://www.assyriatimes.com/engine/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3329 The 22nd Annual Assyrian Church of the East Youth Conference- July 11, 2008 The 22nd Annual Conference of the Youth Association of the Assyrian Church of the East in North America was held from July 3rd to 6th, 2008, at Phoenix, Arizona (USA) under the auspices of the St. Peter Parish in Phoenix, Diocese of Western United States. There were over 400 youth participants in this year&8217;s conference from all over the four dioceses in North America (Diocese of Eastern USA, Western USA, Canada and Western California). The various parish youth ministries which participated.http://www.assyriatimes.com/engine/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3328 Protest group disrupts mass- July 11, 2008 Herald SunPROTEST groups disrupted mass at St Patrick's Cathedral this morning, calling for a meeting with the Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart.About 15 victims and representatives of victims of clergy sexual abuse protested outside the cathedral as well as around 100 members of a Campbellfield church demanding the reinstatement of their former priest.http://www.assyriatimes.com/engine/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3327 |