President Barzani Receives Patriarch Louis Sako 24.07.2014, Shwan Barzinji BasNews, Erbil Kurdistan Regional President Massoud Barzani has made an impassioned statement to all Iraqi Christians in the wake of their forced…
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By Kate Maltby Last updated: July 25th, 2014 “Nineveh city was a city of sin. The jazzin’ and a-jivin’ made a terrible din.” So starts Michael Hurd’s Jonah-Man Jazz, the Sixties incarnation…
By Christopher Howse, 25 Jul 2014 The persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria share a history of holiness and literary and theological culture of which the West is largely ignorant There is…
The end of Christianity in the Middle East could mean the demise of Arab secularism In a Middle East rebuilt on intolerant ideologies, there is likely to be little place for beleaguered…
July 24, 2014, By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille, Catholic World Report Each semester, I teach a course called “Eastern Christianity and the Encounter with Islam.” And next year I have a…
July 14th 2014, 15:08 by B.C., Erasmus APART from praying and lamenting, is there anything else that concerned outsiders, such as the Western churches, should be doing to help Christians and other…
Scores of Christians flee Mosul amid continued prosecution by Islamist extremists Daily News Egypt July 21, 2014, By Adham Youssef The Coptic Orthodox Church has condemned the targeting of Iraqi Christians in…
By Tim Stanley World Last updated: July 21st, 2014 For the first time in 1,600 years, Mass is not being said in Mosul: an ancient culture has been wiped out in a…
With thanks to the Revd Jamie Hawkey for sending us this report: For Iraqi Christian Fadi and his young family it is a lonely wait to see whether they will be executed…
Posted 2014-07-19 15:52 GMT The Arabic letter “n” (inside red circle),signifying “Nasarah” (Christian), on a Christian home in Mosul. (AINA) — ISIS has begun marking Christian homes with the Arabic letter “n”…