June 06, 2014 A flood of Iraqi Christian refugees is straining the resources of the Chaldean Catholic Church in the autonomous region of Kurdistan. More than 12,000 Christian families from Baghdad, Mosul,…
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Baghdad, June 06, 2014 (Zenit.org) With the migration of Christians from strife-ridden parts of the country to the north of Iraq the local Church there is facing major challenges. Chaldean Archbishop Bashar…
Damascus, May 19, 2014 (Zenit.org) Lela Gilbert The present bloodshed in Syria began in 2010, during the early days of the so-called Arab Spring. At first, the anti-regime protests appeared to be…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – “In recent weeks we have seen a new wave of the exodus of Christians from Aleppo. The families waited for high school to end, then they took their…
Holot (Agenzia Fides) In the Negev desert there is a detention center with more than two thousand prisoners, mostly of Christian faith. We are talking about the center of Holot, where Eritreans…
05/13/2014 18:01, IRAQ Mgr Nona talks to AsiaNews about the “general indifference” that surrounds the deaths, violence and attacks in his country. Even though people need “peace and serenity”, the elections “did…
▶ World Over – 2014-05-08 – Patriarch Gergory III Laham on Syria with Raymond Arroyo – YouTube
8 May 2014 One church leader is pointing the finger at the West to explain the disappearance of Iraq’s Christians, writes Salah Nasrawi As the mass exodus of Iraq’s Christians continues, so…
Please note that we post this only for information about a significant statesman’s perspective on Eastern Christianity. Please see the item on line (below) to read various responses. From the report, setting to one side his…
2014-04-26 Kirkuk (AFP) — Iraq’s dwindling Christian community faces “disaster,” and if no action is taken they will number just a few thousand in a decade, the country’s most senior church leader…