Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – “Now in Mosul jihadist militants control the city and the situation is calm. But we do not know who they are and what they want to do now”.…
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St. Etchmiadzin Armenian church following attacks by ISIS. AINA) — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also known as Da’esh and ISIL) yesterday took control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest…
Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) – The villages around Kirkuk are already beyond the control of the Iraqi government, while in the urban area people are locked up in the house and the Kurdish…
Archbishop: Probably There Is Not One Christian Now Left in Mosul | ZENIT – The World Seen From Rome
Rome, June 11, 2014 (Zenit.org) A graphic account of the Islamist take-over of Mosul and the people’s desperate struggle to flee to safety has come from the city’s Chaldean bishop. Speaking today…
Erbil, Iraq, Jun 9, 2014 / 04:49 pm (CNA).- Iraq’s Kurdistan region is enjoying peace relative to the rest of the country, which has led thousands of Christian families to migrate there,…
Kirkuk (Agenzia Fides) – After the capture of Mosul, the advance continues on the Iraqi territory on behalf of rebels of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the jihadist…
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Insurgents of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), conquered in the late evening of Monday, June 9th the seat of the provincial government in Mosul,…
7 June 2014 – Naharnet Two Orthodox bishops kidnapped in Syria in April 2013 are currently in the northern city of Raqqa and held captive by the Islamic State of Iraq and…
From Antelias – 6 June 2014 “Your solidarity with the Armenians during the 100th Anniversary Commemorations of the Genocide will be a valuable contribution to our just cause” H.H. Aram I “The history…
2014-06-02 (AP) — A security official in Egypt says a mob of angry Islamists has burned shops owned by Coptic Christians near the ancient city of Luxor hours before a trial for…