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…
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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…
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…
Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday June 25, Sunni militiamen led by the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIL) attacked the city of Qaraqosh, situated in the Nineveh Plain, 28…
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Kurdish Peshmerga forces trying to protect Christians reported clashes with Islamic insurgents in northern Iraq, as militants who have been on a territorial rampage since more than a…
Aid to the Church in Need, Posted 2014-06-24 Catholic bishops from Iraq are meeting this week to come up with a “rescue plan” amid growing fears that the ISIS Islamist attacks have…
06/23/2014 In an official statement, the local Church calls on the parties to use reason and set up a national unity government that represents all citizens. War will not deliver any winners…
2014-06-23 23:55 GMT Mosul, Iraq (AINA) — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has begun to brutally enforce Islamic laws (AINA 2014-06-14) in Mosul, Iraq, which it overran on June…