His Holiness Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, called the major countries and the international community to investigate the crimes against humanity that are committed…
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07/29/2014 The Patriarch, together with a delegation of French prelates in Erbil, came to be among the families of Christians expelled by jihadists. “I bring Pope Francis’ solidarity and love,” he said.…
Vatican City, 28 July 2014 (VIS) – Yesterday, Sunday, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, presided at the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of St. Paul the…
A view from Reformed Christianity in the USA, But NB it is mistaken about the make-up of Christians in Iraq – very few are Roman Catholic; there is no mention of the…
See the BBC video report here: BBC News – Iraq crisis: Tense times in Isis-held Mosul And from Independent Catholic News: Up to 2,000 people from the Iraqi Christian community in the…
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…
07/26/2014 “Forget us not!” says Mar Louis Sako in a message to Card Barbarin on the occasion of the march of solidarity with Iraqi Christians, held Saturday in Lyon. Baghdad (AsiaNews) –…
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Francis phoned the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Louis Raphael I Sako to manifest his participation and closeness to the suffering of the Iraqi people, starting…
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…
Reinhard Backes, Wednesday, July 23, 2014 In a dramatic appeal to the international community the Archbishops of Mosul, Iraq have asked for more outside help for minorities in Iraq. Their declaration calls…