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…
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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…
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…
June 26, 2014 WASHINGTON—The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a powerful religious freedom measure this morning holding Turkey accountable for the return of thousands of stolen Christian holy sites and urging the…
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…
Severity of sentence shocks Christian community, free speech advocates. June 25, 2014 By Our Middle East Correspondent. ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A young Christian man in Upper Egypt accused of…
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…