Over the past 11 years, the Christian population in Iraq has decreased by more than 75%. It started to decline gradually after 2003, following the overall rise in violence and attacks targeting Christians. Before…
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Brussels (AINA) — A well known Assyrian church manuscripts is the topic of a new book by Dr. Ayda Kaplan, a Belgian born Assyrian researcher. The Dioscoros Theodoros lectionary is one of…
The security office is so neatly tucked away into a small side street that it’s a little difficult to take it seriously as a threatening resistance operation. Inside, young guys are sitting…
Experts have this week identified a recently discovered site in China as an early Christian burial site with origins in the Nestorian Church, properly known as The Church of the East. The…
MIDYAT, Turkey — Miydat’s Assyrian Orthodox community is still encumbered with festive cookies and candied nuts from their Christmas festivities. In every home, tables groan with remnants from the recent celebrations, which…
Jubilee Campaign USA and Jubilee Campaign Netherlands are jointly announcing with Law & Liberty Trust the alliance of the Syriacs and Kurds of Syria for the strategic purpose of representing both minorities at the…
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – The Iraqi Council of Ministers approved a plan on Tuesday, January 21 that provides for the establishment of a new independent province in the Nineveh Plain, in the…
By Dr. Marta Wozniak, 2014-01-20 From left to right: Dr Lise Paulsen Galal (Roskilde University, Denmark), Torsten Moritz (Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe), Dr Fiona McCallum (University of St Andrews, Scotland), Dr…
Those reading this article from the Union Tribune of the San Diego should bear two things in mind: (a) the reporter does not understand the difference between a Roman Catholic (a Latin…
Jamie Dettmer, of The Daily Beast, writes: The Vatican announced last week that Pope Francis will visit the Middle East in May, 50 years after Paul VI’s historic visit—but will any Christians…