Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Yohanna Petros Mouche.One archbishop and twenty priests are alleged to be the only people remaining in the northern Iraqi town of Qaraqosh. Two days ago, fighting broke…
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Threatened by ISIS, Mosul’s Christians say goodbye By Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy | June 26, 2014 I’ve been reading the headlines from northern Iraq over the past two weeks with an intensifying…
June 26, 2014 WASHINGTON—The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a powerful religious freedom measure this morning holding Turkey accountable for the return of thousands of stolen Christian holy sites and urging the…
Aid to the Church in Need, Posted 2014-06-24 Catholic bishops from Iraq are meeting this week to come up with a “rescue plan” amid growing fears that the ISIS Islamist attacks have…
By Richard Spencer, Bartella 6:00PM BST 21 Jun 2014 Captain Firaz Jacob knows he may well be mounting a last stand at the frontiers of the Christian settlement of Bartella on the…
By Judit Neurink 19/6/2014 BARDARASH, Kurdistan Region – There is no place for them in an Islamic state, say Christians who fled Iraq’s second city of Mosul for safer areas controlled by…
Fleeing Christians find shelter in St. Matthew’s Monastery in northern Iraq, a place of refuge since the fourth century June 17, 2014, by Jane Arraf @janearraf Perched on the side of a…
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…
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…