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…
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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…
17 June 2014 12:39 by Abigail Frymann The international community should not intervene in efforts to halt the insurgency by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) militia who have…
Arab American News, News Report, Natasha Dado, Posted: Jun 13, 2014 DETROIT — There is not much local Iraqis can do to help the victims of violence in their homeland except pray…
13 June 2014 – Meeting in Armenia, 11-12 June 2014 Church leaders and representatives from Syria, the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Mother See…
Islamic extremists have taken over Iraq’s second largest city, forcing over 150,000 people to flee from Mosul. Among the refugees there are roughly 1,000 Christian families who have left their homes and…
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,…
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,…