by Elise Harris, Vatican City, Jul 3, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News) In a tumultuous Iraq facing an increasingly uncertain future, Catholic charity organizations are rallying to meet the immediate needs of those afflicted by…
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July 3, 2014 Ahrar al-Sunna issued a statement on its Twitter account on Thursday, saying that all churches should be demolished across the Islamic state of Lebanon, Al-Alam reported. The group has…
07/02/2014, IRAQ For Chaldean Patriarch, Iraq is moving towards civil war whilst politicians are only interested in oil by Mar Louis Raphael I Sako In a note to AsiaNews, Mar Sako highlights…
Summary Assyrian Christian community leaders tell Al-Monitor that the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has not yet destroyed ancient Assyrian and Christian artifacts in Mosul. Author Mohammed A. Salih, July…
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…
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.…
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…