Islamist armed robbers and rapists to Christians: leave, pay tax, or die 30 June 2014, Rome Reports During his morning Mass at Santa Marta, the Pope said that there are many Christians…
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Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Since Saturday 28th June we have no news regarding Sisters Atur and Miskinta, two Chaldean religious women of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, who had…
06.29.14, Peter Schwartzstein, The Daily Beast Reeling from regional developments and disillusioned with the West, some Iraqi Christians are looking to Russia for support. After a decade of church bombings, targeted killings,…
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…
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…
Contrast this film from autumn 2010, broadcast on French television appealing for help, and what is happening this very day (BBC report of Christians fleeing their villages): 2014-06-26 19:46 GMT Fighting between ISIS…
Threatened by ISIS, Mosul’s Christians say goodbye By Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy | June 26, 2014 I’ve been reading the headlines from northern Iraq over the past two weeks with an intensifying…
Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday June 25, Sunni militiamen led by the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIL) attacked the city of Qaraqosh, situated in the Nineveh Plain, 28…
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Kurdish Peshmerga forces trying to protect Christians reported clashes with Islamic insurgents in northern Iraq, as militants who have been on a territorial rampage since more than a…
Aid to the Church in Need, Posted 2014-06-24 Catholic bishops from Iraq are meeting this week to come up with a “rescue plan” amid growing fears that the ISIS Islamist attacks have…