Syria’s Assyrians threatened by extremists
Syrian and Iraqi Assyrian Christian women celebrate the new year in Damascus with folk dances and songs, April 1, 2004. (photo by REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri)…
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Syrian and Iraqi Assyrian Christian women celebrate the new year in Damascus with folk dances and songs, April 1, 2004. (photo by REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri)…
Read morePosted by ACN News By Oliver Maksan On Wednesday Iraq will be voting for a new parliament – What can the country’s Christians expect?…
Read moreCatholic World News – The exodus of Christians from Iraq is “frightening,” the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Baghad has warned.…
Read moreBy Kate ThayerTribune reporter Some Iraqi Americans talk about their experience voting for Iraqi election at the Skokie polling place in Illinois.…
Read moreElection worker Robert Yohanna, 2nd from left, checks the IDs of Iraqi citizens wishing to vote in the Assyrian National Council…
Read moreBy John Newton and Oliver Maksan THE first Catholic pastoral centre caring for migrant workers in Israel has been opened by the leader of the Holy Land’s Catholics.…
Read moreAnkawa.com – Erbil – Exclusive A report said on Tuesday that violations in the process of the special voting in the city of Erbil occurred. This took place through…
Read moreBy Kate Thayer Tribune reporter Iraqi-American Agnes Merza of Morton Grove said she made sure she was first in line Sunday at her local polling place to vote in…
Read moreIraq’s dwindling Christian community faces “disaster,” and if no action is taken they will number just a few thousand in a decade,…
Read moreMiddle East Online Fewer than 400,000 Christians across country Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako says daily migration of Christians from Iraq is ‘terrifying’ and blames range of factors.…
Read moreBy Gulisor Akkum DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—Hundreds attended the commemoration of the Armenian and Assyrian genocides here in…
Read moreBy Steve Weatherbe Western countries are ignoring the reality that they will never be allowed to go home Syrian refugees: Unlike their Muslim countrymen, Syrian Christians will never be able safely to return.…
Read moreBy: Raymond Ibrahim When it comes to Muslim persecution of Christians, increasingly the past is a blueprint to the present.…
Read moreAn Abandoned Institution Makes a Comebackby Mark Movsesian4 Recently, an Islamist group in the Syrian opposition, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), captured the town of Raqqa…
Read moreANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News Sevil Erku? Sevil Erku?sevil.kucukkosum@hdn.com.tr The head of the Turkey Syriac Associations Federation, Evgil Türker, has told Hürriyet Daily News that efforts are being taken to…
Read moreAdded by Twanna Harps EasterEaster is extra meaningful for Christians who fled Syria to come to the United States. Many who fled the war-torn country,…
Read moreIt is now precisely a year, 365 days, since the kidnapping of the two Metropolitans of Aleppo, the Syriac-Orthodox Archbishop…
Read moreCatholic World News Describing the situation in Iraq as “worrying,” the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church has issued his Easter message.…
Read more(Vatican Radio/l’Osservatore Romano) The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, presided at Mass Tuesday evening…
Read moreBy John Pontifex Patriarch’s appeal after bomb blast in playground kills one child and injures 60 others THE LEADER of Catholics in Syria has issued a desperate plea for international help, describing how one child was killed and 60…
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