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His Beatitude Mar Gewargis Sliwa, Metropolitan of Iraq, Jordan and Russia has delivered a lecture to faithful in Illinois entitled ‘Pictures from the Past’. The lecture was held at St Andrew’s Church, Glenview, Illinois on Tuesday 4th September 2012.

His Grace Mar Narsai Benyamin, Bishop of Iran, has raised a young deacon to the ranking of Holy Priesthood.

Reverend Archdeacon Emmanuel Youkhana, parish priest from Germany and representative of His Beatitude Mar Meelis Zaia AM in Lebanon has attended the consecration of Professor Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.

His Beatitude Mar Gewargis Sliwa, Metropolitan of Baghdad and Iraq, has met Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, while on a sojourn to the Russian capital.

His Grace Mar Awa Royel, Bishop of California and Secretary of the Holy Synod has represented the Assyrian Church of the East at the Third Colloquium Syriacum, an international conference for scholars of the Syriac tradition.

Dr. William Ishaya Warda, newly appointed Adviser in the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations in New York has called upon His Beatitude Mar Gewargis Sliwa, Metropolitan of Iraq, Russia and Jordan.

The Youth Association of Diana, Northern Iraq, have successfully organized their second annual Sports and Cultural Festival, featuring lectures and activities over six days.

Faithful have gathered at St Zaia Church, Baghdad, to partake in the funeral service of Reverend Oraham Dinkha, the beloved parish priest who endured Baghdad’s rough times throughout the last decade.

Graduating student parishioners of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East have been received graduate medallions on behalf of His Holiness Mar DInkha IV, Catholicos Patriarch, during ceremonies around the world.

Continuing Christian hope is essential in the current unstable climate of the Middle East, His Beatitude Mar Gewargis Sliwa has stressed during a World Council of Churches (WCC) meeting on violence against Christians.

Leaders of various denominations and nationalists in Iraq have come together to celebrate the occasion of the birth of Christ and pray for a good start to the new year.

The Archdiocese of Iraq has again shown it is committed to growing the message of the Assyrian Church of the East's holy fathers, with the ordination of five sons who have been called to serve in the Lord's vineyard.

His Beatitude Mar Gewargis Sliwa, Metropolitan of Iraq, Iran and Russia has laid his hand on Martin Nabil Nicola and raised him to the ranking of Deacon in the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East.

The martyrs of last month's massacre at Our Lady of Deliverance Syriac Catholic Church, Baghdad, have been remembered during Holy Mass led by His Beatitude Mar Gewargis Sliwa while visiting Sweden.