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Girls navigate a muddy street Dec. 5 as they make their way to school amid the rubble of the Old City of Mosul, Iraq. when Islamic State controlled the city,most children did not attend school. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)
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Open Doors has appealed for help for Syrian families who are traumatised, lacking basic food and medicines and struggling to cope with the effects of the war.
Around 12,000 families are being supported through church-run Centres of Hope funded by donations from Open Doors supporters around the world. Continue reading
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‘Two of my churches were hit by airstrikes, two others were damaged. Nothing was left but the walls. But I don’t feel hopeless’
Girls navigate a muddy street on as they make their way to school amid the rubble of Continue reading
Approximately one million Christians have left Iraq since 2002, leaving fewer than 250,000
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BY: Jeffrey Cimmino
Over the past year, the United States has taken steps to aid Christians driven from their Continue reading
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After bombing the monastery in Mosul, ISIS terrorists have been driven underground — but not totally eliminated.
When ISIS fighters burst into Father Afran Sony’s monastery in northern Iraq in June Continue reading
by Gary Nguyen President Trump Signs Bill to Aid Religious Genocide Victims in Iraq and Syria U.S. President Donald Trump singed the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act -Dec. 11, 2018 Video screenshot Rep. Chris Smith introduced the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act United States President Donald Continue reading
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Yesterday, President Donald Trump, signed the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018. The law, which defines as Genocide crimes perpetrated in recent years by Jihadists on Christians and Yazidis in Iraq and Syria, commits the US Continue reading
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Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) save lives. That is not in dispute.
Under California law, every “health studio” has a duty to provide and maintain AEDs on site. What was in dispute recently before the California Court of Appeals was whether a “health studio” breached that duty when the member of a third party league suffered Continue reading
by Michael Rubin
Every April, Turkish diplomats and members of the Congressional Turkey Caucus scramble to avert a resolution recognizing as genocide the World War I-era Ottoman massacres of Armenians. Turkish officials oppose any resolution holding Turkey responsible both because the Republic of Turkey was not formally declared until 1923 Continue reading
U.S. President Donald Trump signs H.R. 390, the ‘Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018’ in the Oval Office at the White House Dec. 11 in Washington, D.C. Those supporting aid efforts in the region, including Archbishop Bashar Warda of the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Erbil, Carl Anderson of the Knights Continue reading
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Sanharib Barsoum, the deputy head of the Syriac Union Party in Syria. (Photo: Kurdistan 24/Wladimir van Wilgenburg)
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The bill directs US assistance toward persecuted communities, including through faith-based programmes
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Archbishop Bahar Matti Warda, Archbishop of Erbil and the Chaldean Catholic Continue reading
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Any day now, Theoneste Bagosora, a mastermind of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, will be eligible to apply for early release. In 2011, Bagosora’s life-in-prison verdict was reduced to 35 years by Theodor Meron, the American judge heading the international Continue reading
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“The entrance to Karemlash, a small village in northern Iraq, is marked by a sign featuring Jesus Christ, hands beckoning, next to the words ‘Wellcome Back’ [sic]. His beaming smile has taken on an ironic cast for the residents of this minority enclave. Continue reading
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North-East Mosul was occupied by the Islamic State. The population fled leaving behind destroyed houses, churches, schools and other buildings. Photo: Hungarian Interchurch Aid Continue reading
A center for internally displaced persons, most of whom are Christians, in Dawodiya, Iraq, April 10, 2016. Credit: Elise Harris/CNA
By Christine Rousselle
Washington D.C., Dec 11, 2018 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- President Donald Continue reading
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Church properties, unaccessable for nearly 50 years, to be reopened when the land is safe.
For nearly 50 years churches at one of the sites where it is believed Christ was baptized by John the Baptist have been inaccessible to pilgrims due to a large amount of landmines hidden under the terrain. Now, thanks to a joint effort by the Israeli government and the HALO Trust, an international anti-landmine charity, the site is being cleared of the dangerous explosive traps and these churches could see their doors reopen as soon as 2019. Continue reading
World leaders gathered in Marrakesh on December 10 to sign a historic agreement safeguarding the rights of migrants. Despite the withdrawal of some countries, the Global Compact on Migration was approved by 164 countries. It follows the Global Compact on Refugees, approved at the UN in mid-November by all countries, bar one – the United States. Continue reading
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Displaced persons mosey in a camp in Iraq. Photo: UNICEF
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — With temperatures reaching 50 Celsius in summer in Iraq, in the north they plummet to freezing leaving hundreds of thousands of IDPs vulnerable to the elements. Continue reading