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…
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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…
25 June 2014, RISU The 87th Assembly of the council organizations that help the Eastern Catholic Churches has met at the Vatican. On this occasion, on June 24, 2014, the Prefect of the…
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…
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…
Vatican City, 26 June 2014 (VIS) – The Pope embraces all the Churches of the East and is close to their faithful, whose tears, fears and hopes are also ours, a sentiment…