Islamist armed robbers and rapists to Christians: leave, pay tax, or die 30 June 2014, Rome Reports During his morning Mass at Santa Marta, the Pope said that there are many Christians…
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Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Since Saturday 28th June we have no news regarding Sisters Atur and Miskinta, two Chaldean religious women of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, who had…
Baghdad, June 30, 2014 (Zenit.org) Thousands of Iraqi Christians have been returning to their homes in the north of the country, days after they fled villages under attack by Sunni Muslim extremists.…
niqash | Special Correspondent | Mosul | 27.06.2014 One of the things the Sunni Muslim extremists who took over Iraq’s northern city, Mosul, have forbidden is the worship of false idols.…
06.29.14, Peter Schwartzstein, The Daily Beast Reeling from regional developments and disillusioned with the West, some Iraqi Christians are looking to Russia for support. After a decade of church bombings, targeted killings,…
06.29.14 The advance of ISIS has ended over a thousand years of Christian worship in Mosul—the latest chapter in the long decline of Christianity in the Middle East. Last Sunday, for the…
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – The wave of displaced people who fled from Qaraqosh and other Christian villages in the Nineveh Plain under the military pressure of Sunni insurgents led by Islamists of…
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…
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…