Posted 2014-07-29 (AINA) — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured the city of Mosul, Iraq on June 10. Almost immediately thereafter it began to drive Assyrians out of Mosul…
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Romsin McQuade, 30 Jul 2014 Tim Stanley writes: The religious persecution in Iraq has seen one of the most vibrant Middle East Christian communities almost wiped out – forced to convert, driven…
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…
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…
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…
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…
07/24/2014 by Fady Noun “The planned expulsion of Christians is a barbaric act,” said Ignatius Ephrem, “unprecedented in the history of relations between Christians and Muslims.” There are states that support those…
July 14th 2014, 15:08 by B.C., Erasmus APART from praying and lamenting, is there anything else that concerned outsiders, such as the Western churches, should be doing to help Christians and other…
21 July 2014, Statement and call for solidarity: The present situation in Iraq is a tragedy for many, both Christians and Muslims, and deeply worrying. One effect of this has been the…
Here is the full translation of the interview granted by the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Ignace Joseph III Younan, to Sergio Cenofanti of Vatican Radio (in Italian). Ignace Joseph III Younan…