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…
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07/24/2014 by Fady Noun “The planned expulsion of Christians is a barbaric act,” said Ignatius Ephrem, “unprecedented in the history of relations between Christians and Muslims.” There are states that support those…
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…
Asia News, 2014-07-22 by Fady Noun “We hear no one cry out” against the brutal behavior that contradicts 1,400 years of history of the Islamic world. The Syriac-Catholic patriarch calls on the…
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…
Sun, Jul 20 19:23 PM EDT, by Dominic Evans and Raheem Salman BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The head of Iraq’s largest church said on Sunday that Islamic State militants who drove Christians out…
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…
Vatican City, 21 July 2014 (VIS) – Yesterday Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, celebrated Mass in the Maronite Cathedral of Our Lady of Lebanon in Los…
21 July 2014, Statement and call for solidarity: The present situation in Iraq is a tragedy for many, both Christians and Muslims, and deeply worrying. One effect of this has been the…