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(Assyrian International News Agency) The Catholic Near East Welfare Association has compiled a valuable study. Matthew Bunson Christians have been concerned for decades now at the suffering of our sisters and…
Read more(AhlulBayt News Agency) – According to the statements of local authorities, Zabadani resort town in Damascus province, which is located 25 kilometers from the Syrian capital, is now fully liberated after the fierce clashes between Syrian Army and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants (ex. Al-Nusra front).…
Read moreBy education reporter Natasha Robinson Media player: “Space” to play, “M” to mute, “left” and “right” to seek. Video: How a school in western Sydney helps its Syrian students uprooted by war (ABC News) Their lives were uprooted by a brutal and relentless war. Villages were bombed and…
Read moreby Stephen Wynne • ChurchMilitant.com War, persecution driving faithful from the region NEW YORK (ChurchMilitant.com) – In the face of war and persecution, Christianity is withering across much of the Middle East.…
Read moreperson BJ Coleman Photo by B. J. Coleman (Left to right) Aklas Sheai, a counselor and instructor at Cuyamaca College, with her daughter, Asma Yassi, another college faculty member, in front of the Middle Eastern Student Club table during the college’s special event Celebration of Chaldean Culture and Traditions.…
Read moreBy Stephen Hollingshead Fox News ERBIL, Iraq – This September 25, Iraqi Kurdistan will hold its long promised referendum on independence from Baghdad. This move is controversial everywhere except in Kurdistan; yet it presents a defining opportunity for U.S. interests.…
Read moreStarting 26/9, IMA in Paris displays 3rd century artifacts PARIS – At the Arab World Institute in Paris, a new exhibition titled ”Chrétiens d’Orient: Deux mille ans d’histoire” (Eastern Christians: Two thousand years of history” will put precious artifacts on display, including the 6th-century illuminated Syriac gospel book…
Read moreLorraine Caballero Christians in Iraq still need the help of the United States in preventing both the extinction of their faith in their country and the destabilization of the Middle East that it will cause, former Virginia congressman Frank R. Wolf said in a report. (REUTERS / Khalid al Mousily)Iraqi Christians attend a Good Friday…
Read moreBy JAKE SHERMAN Good Sunday morning. TRUMP SAYS HE’S GOING TO TEXAS — @realDonaldTrump at 8:59 a.m.: “I will be going to Texas as soon as that trip can be made without causing disruption. The focus must be life and safety.” — THE KEY PHRASE: “As soon as that trip can be made without causing…
Read moreBy Stephen Hollingshead Fox News Kelly Jane Torrance, deputy managing editor for The Weekly Standard, and Kimberly Atkins, chief Washington reporter for The Boston Herald, join the debate Iran missing from President Trump’s Afghanistan strategy? ERBIL, Iraq – This September 25, Iraqi Kurdistan will hold its long promised referendum…
Read moreThey also beat the Ancient Greeks to it, according to Australian academics Ian Johnston Science Correspondent The Babylonian tablet Plimpton 322 has numbers written in cuneiform script UNSW The Ancient Babylonians knew about a form of trigonometry more advanced than the…
Read moreBy Rudaw Start Slideshow Show Captions SHEKHAN, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdistan Regional Government has graduated more than one thousand soldiers of diverse ethnicities, including Yezidis and Arabs, whose task will be to protect the Nineveh Plains north and northeast of Mosul.…
Read more• Most families surviving on less than £1.60 a day By Murcadha O Flaherty AS life-threatening poverty has left Syria’s war-torn families struggling to buy food, a leading Catholic charity has responded with much needed help. Working with local Church leaders, Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need has…
Read moreSiranush Ghazanchyan Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds issued a powerful proclamation commemorating the Ottoman Turkish Government’s murder of over 2.5 million Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Syriacs, making the Hawkeye State the 47th U.S. state to properly…
Read moreBy Rudaw Right to left: US SPE to the anti-ISIS coalition Brett McGurk, a local priest, the US Consul General to Erbil Ken Gross, and a local official stand inside a rebuilt church in Tel Skof. Photo: @brett_mcgurk ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A mostly Christian town about 25 kilometers north of Mosul…
Read more• ACN project head warns of growing Islamist influence from abroad • Praises Church’s outreach to the poor regardless of religious differences By Murcadha O Flaherty IN the aftermath of this month’s Islamist attack on restaurant goers in Burkina Faso, it is…
Read moreArlington, Va., Aug 23, 2017 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A recent trip to Iraq drove home the perilous state of Christians and Yazidis there, a former US Congressman from Virginia has recounted in a new report. “If nothing is done, I believe that we will see the end of ancient Christianity in Iraq within…
Read moreKHOVD & ULAANGOM, Mongolia — Mongolia is known as the Land of the Blue Sky. That’s because people here enjoy more than 250 sunny days a year!…
Read moreBernie Sanders in Detroit: U.S. cannot allow ‘death sentence’ deportations By Ben Solis DETROIT – Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that a recent wave of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests affecting Chaldean communities in Detroit constitute as “death sentence” deportations.…
Read moreby ACN News By Murcadha O Flaherty and John Pontifex WITHIN just one month up to 15,000 displaced Iraqi Christians are expected to return to the town in the ancient Nineveh Plains which suffered the worst violence carried out by Daesh (ISIS). The return of an expected 3,000 families to Qaraqosh comes amid growing concern…
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