Monthly Archives: January 2015

SYRIAN ARCHBISHOP DENOUNCES ISIS ‘PLOT’ TO EMPTY MIDDLE EAST OF CHRISTIANS

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ReutersReuters by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Archbishop of Aleppo in Syria, has decried what he calls a “plot” to empty the Middle East of Christians. ISIS has a special fear of Christians, he said, because theirs are “the only voices to reach the West.” Jeanbart has been visiting Sicily this week…

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ISIS Bombs 2,700-Year-Old Assyrian Walls of Nineveh in Iraq: Report

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By Jack Phillips, Epoch Times (AP Photo/Militant Website, File) People walk beside a building on fire as they look for survivors and carry out bodies from the site after a Syrian government airstrike hit the area in the town of Hamouriyeh, east of Damascus, Syria, Friday, Jan. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network) Government Airstrikes…

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Syriac Church wins lawsuit for property’s return

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YUSUF ZIYA DURMU? The Syriac Church in Istanbul won a lawsuit it filed for the return of seized property in Istanbul in another case marking the improvement of minority rights in Turkey. Beyo?lu Kadim Meryemana Church was seeking the return of a plot currently occupied by Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts in Istanbul’s upscale…

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Christian leaders meet in Lebanon, call for end to financing terrorists

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BY DOREEN ABI RAAD, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Catholic and Orthodox patriarchs meet in Bkerke, Lebanon, Jan. 27 to address the crises in the Middle East. Pictured from left to right are Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregoire III Laham; Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X of Antioch; Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch; Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem…

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Syrian Christian sends Desperate Letter from Aleppo

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By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent Worthy News / Christian Persecution, Christian Persecution – Middle East, Syria ALEPPO (Worthy News)– A Christian doctor in Aleppo has recently updated Barnabas Fund about the desperate conditions in Syria after almost four years of continuous civil war.…

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A New Level of Refugee Suffering

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By ANGELINA JOLIEJAN. Angelina Jolie on the Syrians and Iraqis Who Can’t Go Home Angelina Jolie at a refugee camp in Iraq’s Dohuk province on Jan. 25. Credit Safin Hamed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images KHANKE, Iraq — I HAVE visited Iraq five times since 2007, and I have seen nothing…

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Iraq’s Christians start taking security into their own hands

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Camille Bouissou| Agence France Presse AL-QOSH, Iraq: When jihadists raided their ancient heartland last month, Iraq’s Christian Assyrians were left defenseless and fled, but now some have decided it is time to put up a fight. In Sharafiya, a village that Kurdish peshmerga retook from ISIS fighters just north of the…

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Dwekh Nawsha representative meets with the leader of the Christian Democratic Party in Australia

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Sydney – 28 January 2015 The Assyrian Universal Alliance – Australian Chapter (AUA) continued in its efforts of demanding greater attention and action from the Australian government regarding the plight of Assyrians in Iraq. A strong delegation met with the Member of the Legislative Council and President of the Christian Democratic Party, Reverend the Honourable…

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Eyeing political gains, Kurds and Syriacs aim to mend old wounds

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Gabriel Aktas, a Syriac priest, poses in Kirklar, a Syriac church in Mardin, south-eastern Turkey, Nov. 17, 2014. (photo by Getty Images/Ozan Kose) Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan sent a “Letter to the Syriac People” from his prison cell last week, calling on Syriacs and Kurds to join forces in…

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Iraq bishop to speak at UK Parliament

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By John Pontifex AN ARCHBISHOP from Kurdish northern Iraq grappling with the influx of more than 120,000 Christians fleeing ISIS is to come to London to plead their cause. Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil is due to give an address in London’s Houses of Parliament on Monday, 9th February amid increasing concerns about the future…

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Piece By Piece, Monks Scramble To Preserve Iraq’s Christian History

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Father Najeeb Michaeel shows off one of the many Christian manuscripts he saved from Iraq’s Christian libraries. Alice Fordham/NPR In an unfinished building in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, displaced Christian children sing a little song about returning to their village. “We’re going back,” they sing, “to our…

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NT Labor boss in Syria to fight Islamic State

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The Australian Gina Rushton Journalist Sydney A SENIOR Northern Territory Labor figure is being investigated by federal police amid concerns he has travelled to Syria to join Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants. Matthew Gardiner was last night suspended as the Labor’s NT president and a party…

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