Ayatriada Community News Page

    This page will provide news and links to news items about our community.  As some of you may know, we have shared our facilities for some time with the Chaldean Catholic refugee community from the Eparchy of Diyarbekir in  southeastern Turkey, where civil unrest has caused many Christians to flee this traditionally Christian region.       Their bishop, Paul Karatas, resided for many years on the second floor of our building and we shared use of our church. 

     Our community news will reflect this sharing as well as our joint activities with our sister communities,     especially those in Athens and Giannitsa.

        1) The Attack on our neighbor, the British Consulate.

                     2) The passing of Chaldean Catholic Bishop of Diyarbekir, Paul Karatas (scroll down to article with photo)

        3) Relief efforts to aid Iraqi Chaldean and Syriac Catholic refugees in Istanbul by Fr. Francis Yakan

         and Fr. Joseph Sag

        4) Pilgrimages 

    We are of course concerned about the growing sense of insecurity that afflicts our people of whatever Church  or rite who are citizens and residents of this marvelously culture-rich and history filled country.  It should be noted by those who harbor evil or offensive thoughts toward their Christian countrymen that the elimination of a diverse and living Christian presence in Turkey will definitively tarnish that image of cultural richness and add a sad confirmatory note to a historical record that was opened nearly a century ago.