13 June 2014 – Meeting in Armenia, 11-12 June 2014 Church leaders and representatives from Syria, the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Mother See…
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Mosul, Iraq’s second city, is now free of Christians for the first time in 1,800 years By Ed West on Thursday, 12 June 2014 War in Iraq has returned with dramatic speed,…
Islamic extremists have taken over Iraq’s second largest city, forcing over 150,000 people to flee from Mosul. Among the refugees there are roughly 1,000 Christian families who have left their homes and…
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – “Now in Mosul jihadist militants control the city and the situation is calm. But we do not know who they are and what they want to do now”.…
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…
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,…