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An elderly man left for dead by two jihadists at a church in the French city of Rouen has spoken of the terrifying ordeal for the first time. Guy Coponet was forced by the killers to film the murder of 85-year-old Fr Jacques Continue reading
ruth-gledhill Ruth Gledhill Christian
Reuters
A displaced Iraqi child, who fled from Islamic State violence in Mosul, fills jerry cans with water at a refugee camp in Erbil.
Remarkable stories of how refugees who lost everything are now rebuilding their lives from scratch have emerged from Iraq. Continue reading
By Rowena Orejana –
Newly-arrived Chaldean Catholic priest Fr Douglas Al-Bazi still feels a little guilty for leaving Iraq for New Zealand.
There is so much work to do in his parish church, Mar-Elia, in Erbil, northern Iraq with so many people to take care of. Continue reading
By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter
North Korea
(Photo: KCNA via Reuters)
A rally celebrating the success of a recent nuclear test is held in Kim Il Sung square in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang September 13, 2016. Continue reading
Bobby Ross Jr. | Christian Chronicle
FAITH, S.D. — After chasing stories all over the United States, I found Faith — a town in South Dakota with a population of 421.
With my recent trip to the Dakotas, I reached a personal goal: reporting for The Christian Chronicle from all 50 states and the nation’s capital. Continue reading
Country’s refugee policy lambasted ahead of referendum on EU mandate on refugees
Daniel McLaughlin in Budapest
Hungarian police patrol the transit zone at Hungary’s southern border with Serbia near Tompa, 169km southeast of Budapest. Photograph: Sandor Ujvari/EPA
Hungary is establishing a special government office to help Christians who face Continue reading
ISIS Executes 6 Fighters By Crushing Them With A Bulldozer
Andre Mitchell Reuters
Shi’ite fighters fire weapons towards ISIS militants on the outskirt of Baiji, northern Iraq, on Sept. 6, 2015.
Christians are not the only ones brutalised by Islamic State (ISIS) militants. Having no Continue reading
by Gary Nguyen
Iraqi Christians can’t seem to find peace, even in Christian-majority America. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not just Muslims who are immigrating to America, but persecuted Christians as well. Christians from Iraq have double the problems due to their faith. Fleeing from a country that was out to wipe them out, they now find themselves in a nation that discriminates against them due to their similarity to the Iraqi Muslims. With Continue reading
James Macintyre
Reuters
Smoke rises from clashes with Islamic State militants in the southeast of Mosul, Iraq. Hopes for a refuge for Christians and other minorities at the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq may have been dashed by a vote in the Iraqi Parliament. Continue reading
Lorraine Caballero
Christians are the most persecuted faith group in the world, a Vatican official said during the United Nations (UN) Summit for Refugees and Migrants in New York.
(Reuters/Muhammad Hamed)Cardinal Louis Raphael I Sako (L), the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, gives communion Continue reading
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations and Iraq signed an agreement Friday aimed at helping the Baghdad government tackle sexual violence in conflict, an issue that made headlines following the capture and rape of Yazidi women by Islamic State extremists in 2014.
Zainab Hawa Bangura, the U.N. special envoy for sexual violence in conflict, and Iraq’s Continue reading
The United Nations and Iraq signed an agreement Friday aimed at helping the Baghdad government tackle sexual violence in conflict, an issue that made headlines following the capture and rape of Yazidi women by Islamic State extremists in 2014
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations and Iraq signed an agreement Friday Continue reading
Lorraine Caballero
Christians are the most persecuted faith group in the world, a Vatican official said during the United Nations (UN) Summit for Refugees and Migrants in New York.
(Reuters/Muhammad Hamed)Cardinal Louis Raphael I Sako (L), the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, gives communion Continue reading
MIchael Fallon says forces to help retake Mosul are being assembled, with Iraqi troops leading the operation.
By Alistair Bunkall, Defence Correspondent
The Defence Secretary has said the operation to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State will begin “within weeks”. Continue reading
By Edith M. Lederer?|?AP
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations and Iraq signed an agreement Friday aimed at helping the Baghdad government tackle sexual violence in conflict, an issue that made headlines following the capture and rape of Yazidi women by Islamic State extremists in 2014. Continue reading
The indigenous Syriacs (Arameans) of Iraq are deeply concerned about their rights and future in their ancestral land. The Nineveh Plain is close to be reconquered from ISIS, but the Syriacs fear to return home without international protection. The first step to ensure their future in their homeland begins with granting them recognition in Article Continue reading
Iraq’s Arameans express deep concern about the lack of constitutional recognition as a distinct ethno-religious people and their uncertain future in their homeland in the Nineveh Plain which soon may be retaken from ISIS. Unlike other populations in Iraq such as Turkmen, Chaldeans and Assyrians, the Syriacs are not mentioned in Article Continue reading
The WCA gave a statement in Geneva during the General Debate of the 33rd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council. It emphasized that the indigenous Aramean people of Syria and Iraq are facing excintion and that the world needs to speak up and prevent such a humanitarian disaster from happening. The WCA Delegate Alexandra Continue reading
Once again, the WCA addressed the Interactive Dialogue with the UN Commission of inquiry on Syria at the 33rd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The first key message was to recognize, stop, punish and prevent acts of genocide committed by ISIS against Syria’s vulnerable minorities, such as the Arameans and Continue reading
The bishops of the Chaldean Catholic Church began a week-long synod in Erbil, Iraq, on September 22.
Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako told AsiaNews that the synod would examine the situation in the Chaldean eparchy of San Diego, which has accepted priests and religious who have left Iraq without permission from their superiors. The Wall Street Continue reading