Muslims and Jews must combine to champion tolerance and stop the Isil-inspired hatred across the Middle East Christianity has been part of the essential fabric of the Middle East for two thousand…
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Homily for the Feast of the Nativity, 25 December 2015, Church of the Most Precious Blood, Southwark
Mosaic, Shrine of Our Lady Awaiting, Maghdouche, Lebanon courtesy of (c) Aid to the Church in Need It is easy to forget in London, one of the greatest cities of the Western world, as…
Remembering, too, all the victims of persecution. http://youtu.be/5rOtYRs1KwI
What are our leaders doing about religious persecution? – Telegraph Saturday, 25th April, 2015 The recent car bomb explosion in Erbil, in Iraq, came as a particular shock since only five days…
By Richard Spencer, Dora, Baghdad, 22 Dec 2014 Last Christmas in Baghdad? There are just 1,500 Christians left in the suburb of Dora, down from 150,000 a decade ago There will be…
By Sally Williams, 29 Nov 2014 On August 6 Isil fighters seized control of the largest Christian city in Iraq. Militants had first attacked Qaraqoshsix weeks earlier as they surged through north-western Iraq,…
Andrew White, an English clergyman known as the Anglican “Vicar of Baghdad,” has seen violence and persecution against Christians unprecedented in recent decades. In the video embedded below, he recounts the story of…
Christianity is being extinguished in the land of its birth and the West is to blame, say Syria’s faithful By Ruth Sherlock, Izraa, Deraa, 22 Nov 2014 Outgoing artillery shook St Elias…
25 September 2014 14:05 by Liz Dodd Bombing jihadists in Syria could make life worse for Christians in the region, the Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo has warned. Archbishop Boutros Marayati told…
Certain thoughts spring to mind in view of the joint readiness of many, particularly European, countries to fight Islamic State and variously named takfiri groups: – Why are some countries, especially…