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…
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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…
07/26/2014 “Forget us not!” says Mar Louis Sako in a message to Card Barbarin on the occasion of the march of solidarity with Iraqi Christians, held Saturday in Lyon. Baghdad (AsiaNews) –…
ISIS militants destroy burial shrine of biblical Prophet Jonah
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…
Fazel Hawramy in Irbil, The Guardian, Thursday 24 July 2014 12.54 BST Iraqi Christians who were forced to flee the northern city of Mosul under threat of forced conversion or execution by…
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Francis phoned the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Louis Raphael I Sako to manifest his participation and closeness to the suffering of the Iraqi people, starting…
23-07-2014 – According to Iraqi intellectual Walid Khadouri Christianity is now facing an eclipse in its own cradle, writes Dina Ezzat In the Lebanese capital Beirut, where he, like no small number…
The end of Christianity in the Middle East could mean the demise of Arab secularism In a Middle East rebuilt on intolerant ideologies, there is likely to be little place for beleaguered…