Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – The wave of displaced people who fled from Qaraqosh and other Christian villages in the Nineveh Plain under the military pressure of Sunni insurgents led by Islamists of…
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An extended article from Der Spiegel (translated by AINA) about the history and experience of the 40,000 Syriac Catholic and Orthodox Christians of Qaraqosh, until now stable and peaceful, now overrun by…
28 June, 2014 KIRKUK, Kurdistan Region— President of the autonomous Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani made an unannounced visit to Kirkuk on Thursday where he met with Kurdish Peshmerga and security forces and…
Further to an earlier report: Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – Qaraqosh is almost a ghost town. More than ninety percent of the more than 40 thousand inhabitants, nearly all Christians of the Syrian…
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…
Through the looking glass: June 27, 2014 The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has awarded Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov with an order for “glory and honor.” Patriarch Kirill gave the…
27 June 2014, By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service Crimean officials deny that a decree which will lead to a substantial rise in the rent the Kiev Patriarchate Ukrainian Orthodox Church…
Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Yohanna Petros Mouche.One archbishop and twenty priests are alleged to be the only people remaining in the northern Iraqi town of Qaraqosh. Two days ago, fighting broke…
Armed Kurds are winning favour by protecting religious minorities. Mohammed A Salih, 26 Jun 2014 08:14 Alqosh, Iraq – The world appears serene and tranquil when looking out from the mesmerising 1,400-year-old…