Vatican City, July 27, 2014 (Zenit.org) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Tomorrow marks the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, which caused millions of deaths and immense destruction.…
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By Jonathan Krohn, 27 July 2014 QARAQOSH, Iraq — Samer Kamil Yacub was alone when four Islamist militants carrying AK-47s arrived at his front door and ordered him to leave the city.…
Rome, July 27, 2014 (Zenit.org) Mark Riedemann “Many Muslims are now shy to declare themselves Muslim. Several Muslim told me: ‘I am ashamed—I do not understand that Islam is like that.’ So…
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…
Lebanese and other Christian leaders in the region need to take action to prevent Christians leaving the Middle East for good. Author: Author Jihad al-ZeinPosted July 27, 2014, Translator, Cynthia Milan More…
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…
Further to Metropolitan Hilarion’s recognition of the Donetsk People’s Republic and its terrorists as legitimate “authorities”, news of another series of atrocities at its hands, this time directed against fellow Christians – non-Moscow Orthodox…
By Kate Maltby Last updated: July 25th, 2014 “Nineveh city was a city of sin. The jazzin’ and a-jivin’ made a terrible din.” So starts Michael Hurd’s Jonah-Man Jazz, the Sixties incarnation…
Friday, 25 July 2014 As the widespread violence and aggression facing Christians and minority groups in Mosul, Iraq, intensifies, it is increasingly evident that the fundamental right and freedom to practice one’s…
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the tireless advocate of the Moscow Patriarchate’s policy to dominate Christianity in Ukraine by its theory of a “Russkiy Mir” (Russian Sphere, or Pax Russica) in which all…