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Iraq archbishop meets Foreign Secretary and makes urgent appeal By John Pontifex AN IRAQI Church leader has met UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and called on the British…
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Iraq archbishop meets Foreign Secretary and makes urgent appeal By John Pontifex AN IRAQI Church leader has met UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and called on the British…
Read moreArchbishop Bashar Warda, one of the leading voices on behalf of persecuted and displaced Christians in Iraq, released today an urgent statement regarding the retreat of U.S. personnel from key areas in the country.…
Read moreBehold the Mt. Sinai Monastery Library, which holds 4,500 partial or whole ancient manuscripts including a copy of Codex Sinaiticus and an ancient Syriac translation of the Gospels.…
Read moreA human head carved in an Assyrian marble slab is displayed in a heritage exhibition at the Assyrian hall of National Museum in Baghdad, Iraq, May 19, 2019. The 30-day heritage exhibition kicked off on Sunday in accordance with International Museum Day. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)…
Read moreby Kevin Edward White Armenian and Syrian refugees at a Red Cross camp outside Jerusalem, circa 1917-19. PHOTO: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS From 1894 to 1924, a staggered campaign of genocide targeted not just the region’s Armenians but its Greek and Assyrian communities as well…
Read moreTurkey’s Greek, Armenian and Assyrian Christians were subjected to a “staggered campaign of genocide” from 1894 to 1924, Breitbart reported. “Turkey’s Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian Christians, which predominated in the region before its colonisation by Turkic…
Read moreThe US president again attacks Tehran. The Iranian leadership tries to tone down the situation, stressing that it does not want a war. Riyadh joins the confrontation, accusing the Islamic Republic of a recent series of incidents. Chaldean patriarch: “Great fear” among the people. The danger is militias and fundamentalist groups that want to open…
Read moreNiraj Warikoo Detroit Free Press On a recent Friday morning, a Yemeni-American community center in Hamtramck buzzed with the chatter of attorneys questioning immigrants about whether they are eligible to become U.S. citizens.…
Read moreby Elura Nanos The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday denied certiorari in Shabo v. Barr. As a result of that denial, the Sixth Circuit’s ruling is the final word in an immigration case with potentially damaging consequences for a Christian husband and father of two who has lived most of his life…
Read moreBy JACK MONTGOMERY Turkey’s Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian Christians, which predominated in the region before its colonisation by Turkic…
Read moreBy Steven Postal, Voices Contributor | Saturday, May 18, 2019 Facebook Twitter Email Ilhan Omar | (PHOTO: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS) I interviewed Dr. M Zuhdi Jasser in January 2017, July 2017, and September 2018 on a range…
Read moreBy Rudaw 10 hours ago – ALQOSH, Iraq – Perching on a mountainside, the small stone cobbled houses of the newly rebuilt historical old town of Alqosh look down over Alqosh’s newer town.…
Read moreLebanon on Thursday laid to rest the former patriarch of its Maronite church Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir after a packed religious service for the respected power-broker. Sfeir,…
Read moreBut can a new, peaceful future be built? by Amy Austin Holmes The borderlands between Turkey and Syria are dotted with small Syriac…
Read morepecial to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — From the appalling murders of 300 Sri Lankan Christians celebrating Easter, to the killings of Coptic Egyptians, Syrian Catholics, and Nigerian faithful, the grisly wave of anti-Christian violence worldwide is…
Read moreWill Maule | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Five young Christian children have been killed in Syria while playing outside a monastery.Wednesday, May 15, 2019…
Read moreFive children were killed during heavy shelling on a Christian town in Syria this week. The children were aged six to 10 and had been playing near a monastery at the time, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports.…
Read moreBEIRUT, LEBANON (9:30 A.M.) – An elderly Christian woman and her daughter were attacked by armed men on Monday in the historical Assyrian city of Bartella.…
Read moreFile photo: Lebanese Maronite Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris, before a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, June 16, 2010. Lebanon’s former Maronite patriarch died May 12, 2019 AFP…
Read moreKurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Masoud Barzani (right) in a meeting with Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Mar Gewargis III, May 12, 2019. (Photo: Masoud Barzani’s website)…
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