Thursday, June 19th, 2014 | Posted by WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt faces what could be an insurgency abduction campaign in the Sinai Peninsula. Security sources said Al Qaida-aligned insurgency militias have been kidnapping Christians…
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Fleeing Christians find shelter in St. Matthew’s Monastery in northern Iraq, a place of refuge since the fourth century June 17, 2014, by Jane Arraf @janearraf Perched on the side of a…
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled, prompting fears of a brewing humanitarian crisis. Most shops in Bartilla are closed. Their owners have either left or don’t bother opening. Business is down;…
Posted 2014-06-18 22:23 GMT, (AINA) Sources in Tikrit and Mosul have told AINA that ISIS has cut off water and electricity to some parts of the cities. The villages surrounding Mosul have…
by Leila Fadel, June 18, 2014 About 20 miles outside the embattled northern Iraqi city of Mosul lies the Christian village of Al-Qoush. It’s taken in about 2,000 residents from Mosul who…
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – “In the villages in the Nineveh plain that accommodated part of the population fled from Mosul, the situation is worsening day by day. There has been no water…
Antelias – On Friday, 13 June 2014, His Holiness Aram I received Bishop Arseni, representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Syria and Lebanon, in his office. The bishop transmitted the greetings…
Patriarch Ignatius Youssef Younan of Antioch is the leader of the Syriac Catholic Church. He spoke June 17 with EWTN News Nightly producer Kathryn Elliott from Lebanon, where he has been living…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The city of Aleppo has been without water again for two days. The repeated suspension of water supplies in recent weeks has become an instrument of pressure in…
Baghdad, Iraq, Jun 17, 2014 / 05:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News) In the midst of advances by Sunni insurgents, Iraq’s remaining Christian community and the country’s majority- Shia population face threats to their…