06.29.14 The advance of ISIS has ended over a thousand years of Christian worship in Mosul—the latest chapter in the long decline of Christianity in the Middle East. Last Sunday, for the…
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Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – The wave of displaced people who fled from Qaraqosh and other Christian villages in the Nineveh Plain under the military pressure of Sunni insurgents led by Islamists of…
An extended article from Der Spiegel (translated by AINA) about the history and experience of the 40,000 Syriac Catholic and Orthodox Christians of Qaraqosh, until now stable and peaceful, now overrun by…
28 June, 2014 KIRKUK, Kurdistan Region— President of the autonomous Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani made an unannounced visit to Kirkuk on Thursday where he met with Kurdish Peshmerga and security forces and…
June 28, 2014, Domenico Agasso jr, Rome – Vatican Insider Yet another display of Francis’ tour de force. At today’s audience with the Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Vatican, the…
Further to an earlier report: Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – Qaraqosh is almost a ghost town. More than ninety percent of the more than 40 thousand inhabitants, nearly all Christians of the Syrian…
After the meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew in Jerusalem, Metropolitan Nicholas of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki says no more “yelling with offensive tones against the West” (by which he means the…
Dr Eamon Duffy has summed up Mortalium Animos, Pius XI’s 1928 Encyclical On Religious Unity, which denounced ecumenism and false eirenicism, as an ultimatum to other Christians – Orthodox and post-Reformation Christians alike…
06/28/2014, Gianni Valente, Rome “Vatican Insider” interviews the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church on his visit to the villages that have welcomed the displaced people of Mosul and Qarqosh. “So far…
Light of the East, the newsletter of the Youngstown-Ohio chapter of the Society for May-June 2014 is available for download here.