St. Etchmiadzin Armenian church following attacks by ISIS. AINA) — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also known as Da’esh and ISIL) yesterday took control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest…
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Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) – The villages around Kirkuk are already beyond the control of the Iraqi government, while in the urban area people are locked up in the house and the Kurdish…
Archbishop: Probably There Is Not One Christian Now Left in Mosul | ZENIT – The World Seen From Rome
Rome, June 11, 2014 (Zenit.org) A graphic account of the Islamist take-over of Mosul and the people’s desperate struggle to flee to safety has come from the city’s Chaldean bishop. Speaking today…
Erbil, Iraq, Jun 9, 2014 / 04:49 pm (CNA).- Iraq’s Kurdistan region is enjoying peace relative to the rest of the country, which has led thousands of Christian families to migrate there,…
Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) – After the capture of Mosul, the advance continues on the Iraqi territory on behalf of rebels of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the jihadist…
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Insurgents of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), conquered in the late evening of Monday, June 9th the seat of the provincial government in Mosul,…
ROME — While Pope Francis tries to strike a delicate balance Sunday on the Israeli/Palestinian front, recent elections in two other Middle Eastern nations have brought reminders not only of how intractable…
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – On the day of his oath as the new President of Egypt, former General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi paid tribute with demanding words with regards to the role carried…
Jun 8, 2014 “Let’s see if we can fill up the Blue Mosque first, before Hagia Sophia,” stated the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, giving a diplomatic answer to those who…
7 June 2014 – Naharnet Two Orthodox bishops kidnapped in Syria in April 2013 are currently in the northern city of Raqqa and held captive by the Islamic State of Iraq and…