Monthly Archives: July 2015

Mobilizing the Christians

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The churches must demand a tougher line against Middle East persecution A man is comforted by others as he mourns over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, outside of the Virgin Mary church in the village of el-Aour, near … …

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Local Iraqi Chaldean Christians demand the release of detainees

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SAN DIEGO – Members of San Diego’s Iraqi Chaldean Christian community are demanding the release of 27-Iraqi Christian refugees being held in the Otay Detention Center. The 27-men, women and children fled Iraq earlier this year after ISIS took over the territory where they used to live.…

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Patriarch: pray for Iraq’s Christians on August 7

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Catholic World News Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako has asked “all Christians all over the world to join us in praying for peace and stability in Iraq in the first anniversary of the conquest by ISIS of the Christian villages of the Nineveh Plain on August 7.”…

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Assyrian Christian woman shares story of captivity by Islamic State

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Displaced Assyrians who fled from the villages around Tel Tamr sit outside the Assyrian Church in Hasakah as they wait for news about the Assyrian abductees remaining in the Islamic State’s hands, March 9, 2015. (photo by REUTERS/Rodi Said) BEIRUT — They were kidnapped by the Islamic State on Feb. 23 in the governorate of…

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Protests over detention of Iraqi Christian refugees in San Diego

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Catholic World News Members of the Chaldean Catholic community in San Diego have been protesting the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention of 27 Iraqi Christians at a privately-run detention facility since February. The refugees, who have fled from the Islamic State, have been detained as the US…

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Assyrian Christians Demand Turkey Stop Bombing YPG

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Reuters by Mary Chastain An Assyrian Christian militia group has asked NATO to stop Turkey from attacking Syria, since the military is shelling the Kurdish militia People’s Protection Unit (YPG). The YPG, and its female counterpart the YPJ, are seen by many in the region as the…

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Group wants to move 152 Iraqi Christians to Czech Republic

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Prague, July 28 (CTK) – The Generace 21 foundation wants to bring 152 Christian refugees from Iraq who have been persecuted by the Islamic State militants to the Czech Republic, it handed their list to the Government Office and it only needs the approval of Czech authorities, its representatives said Tuesday.…

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Iraqi woman suspected in asylum fraud

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Federal immigration officials arrested the woman Wednesday. By Tatiana Sanchez SAN DIEGO — U.S. Homeland Security Investigations has arrested and filed a complaint against an Iraqi refugee, accusing the woman of fraudulently seeking immigration asylum in the United States.…

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Putting America’s Humanitarian Duty Into Practice Aiding Iraqi Refugees

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Steve Lipman While studying at Yale Law School seven years ago, Rebecca Heller traveled to Israel on a fellowship, and made a side trip to Jordan, where she met with Iraqi refugees. Moved by their plight and the need for legal aid, she founded the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Program, which recruited lawyers and law students…

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152 Iraqi Christians may come to Czech Republic

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Written by Czech News Agency Hits: A tattoo of Jesus Christ is seen on the arm of an Iraqi Christian volunteer from the northern embattled Mosul governorate, as he attends a training session at a base in Baghdad airport on July 1, 2015, after joining the Popular Mobilisation units in the combat against Islamic State…

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I REMEMBER AND DEMAND. Recognise! Do not Keep Silent!

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Assyrian delegation lays wreath during the official ceremony in Tsitsernakaberd Dedicated to the centennial of the Genocide committed in Ottoman Turkey in 1914-1923. April 24 is the memorial day of the Armenian Genocide committed in the territory of…

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