By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith on Wednesday, 30 July 2014, The Catholic Herald France has offered asylum to the Iraqi Christians forced to flee from Mosul. The BBC reports this, and so does…
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His Holiness Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, called the major countries and the international community to investigate the crimes against humanity that are committed…
A view from Reformed Christianity in the USA, But NB it is mistaken about the make-up of Christians in Iraq – very few are Roman Catholic; there is no mention of the…
By Jonathan Krohn, 27 July 2014 QARAQOSH, Iraq — Samer Kamil Yacub was alone when four Islamist militants carrying AK-47s arrived at his front door and ordered him to leave the city.…
See the BBC video report here: BBC News – Iraq crisis: Tense times in Isis-held Mosul And from Independent Catholic News: Up to 2,000 people from the Iraqi Christian community in the…
By Kate Maltby Last updated: July 25th, 2014 “Nineveh city was a city of sin. The jazzin’ and a-jivin’ made a terrible din.” So starts Michael Hurd’s Jonah-Man Jazz, the Sixties incarnation…
Fazel Hawramy in Irbil, The Guardian, Thursday 24 July 2014 12.54 BST Iraqi Christians who were forced to flee the northern city of Mosul under threat of forced conversion or execution by…
By Christopher Howse, 25 Jul 2014 The persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria share a history of holiness and literary and theological culture of which the West is largely ignorant There is…
The end of Christianity in the Middle East could mean the demise of Arab secularism In a Middle East rebuilt on intolerant ideologies, there is likely to be little place for beleaguered…
July 24, 2014, By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille, Catholic World Report Each semester, I teach a course called “Eastern Christianity and the Encounter with Islam.” And next year I have a…