07/24/2014 by Fady Noun “The planned expulsion of Christians is a barbaric act,” said Ignatius Ephrem, “unprecedented in the history of relations between Christians and Muslims.” There are states that support those…
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Vatican City, July 23, 2014 (Zenit.org) Pope Francis has called the Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church Ignatius Youssef III Younan to reassure him that he is following news out of Iraq…
Asia News, 2014-07-22 by Fady Noun “We hear no one cry out” against the brutal behavior that contradicts 1,400 years of history of the Islamic world. The Syriac-Catholic patriarch calls on the…
Scores of Christians flee Mosul amid continued prosecution by Islamist extremists Daily News Egypt July 21, 2014, By Adham Youssef The Coptic Orthodox Church has condemned the targeting of Iraqi Christians in…
July 3, 2014, by Mary Hansbury I recently returned from a conference in Qatar, having been invited to present research and read a paper in my field of Syriac studies. The conference was…
By Tim Stanley World Last updated: July 21st, 2014 For the first time in 1,600 years, Mass is not being said in Mosul: an ancient culture has been wiped out in a…
With thanks to the Revd Jamie Hawkey for sending us this report: For Iraqi Christian Fadi and his young family it is a lonely wait to see whether they will be executed…
Vatican City, 21 July 2014 (VIS) – Yesterday Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, celebrated Mass in the Maronite Cathedral of Our Lady of Lebanon in Los…
21 July 2014, 16:25 Islamist militants in Iraq are reported to have seized an ancient monastery near Mosul and expelled the monks. Local residents said monks at the Mar Behnam monastery were allowed…
Here is the full translation of the interview granted by the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Ignace Joseph III Younan, to Sergio Cenofanti of Vatican Radio (in Italian). Ignace Joseph III Younan…