Monthly Archives: October 2017

Pope Francis meets at the Vatican with members of the Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Oct. 5, 2017. Credit: L’Osservatore Romano. Toronto, Canada, Oct 31, 2017 / 12:17 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Bawai Soro was on Tuesday appointed Bishop of the Chaldean Eparchy of Mar Addai of Toronto, which serves Canada’s estimated 40,000 Chaldean…

Ziyad Raoof the Representative of Kurdistan Regional Government to Poland was a guest of international conference „The role of catholic church in European integration process” which was held in Krakow. It was 17th edition of the conference attended by many important politicians from Europe and Poland- MPs and members of European…

Image: US Pledges Funding to Save Iraqi Christians — But Must Act Now A picture taken on October 29, 2017, shows the building of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region’s parliament in Arbil, Kurdistan’s capital in northern Iraq. (Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images) By George J. Marlin…

By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter (Photo: REUTERS/Ahmed Saad)Iraqi Federal Police members hold an Islamic State flag, which they pulled down during fighting in Mosul in July 2017. Christians in Iraq have been unable to celebrate the defeats of the Islamic State terror…

By BosNewsLife Middle East Service Clashes between Kurds and Iraqi army force Christians to flee from homes they just resettled. BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)– Some 1,000 Christian families have fled an area in northern Iraq amid ongoing clashes between Kurdish and Iraqi government forces, local…

President fires U.N., sends aid directly to persecuted believers in Iraq President Donald Trump waves as he and First Lady Melania Trump arrive, Saturday, May 20, 2017, to King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)…

by Ewelina U. Ochab and Alexander W. Titus Instability and the lack of a consistent security force have prevented many Iraqi Christians from returning to their homes. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) Trending News Meryl Streep Responds To Allegations Against Weinstein…

The Vision of the Chaldean Patriarchate about the future of the Christian towns in the Nineveh Plain…

By Adelaide Mena Washington D.C., Oct 27, 2017 / 03:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Middle Eastern Patriarchs reaffirmed the deep history of Christianity in the Middle East and called for its perseverance into the future at this week’s In Defense of Christians summit in Washington, D.C.…

Bill Bumpas (OneNewsNow.com) cross broken shatteredAs ISIS continues to be beaten back in the Middle East, brave Christians are returning to their homes and villages, and finding devastation. William Hollander partners with Open Doors USA in Iraq, where the Islamic ideology has created a difficult situation for the Christian community.…

Catholic leaders are crediting that U.S. intervention for the survival of the town and its Christian community BY: Susan Crabtree Iraqi Christians have started flowing back into a town in Northern Iraq over the last several days amid a fragile ceasefire between the Kurds and Iraqi army.…

Father Matthew Schneider A young Syrian mother who was displaced by violence holds her 2-year-old child in 2015 outside their tent at an informal settlement in Deir al Ahmar, in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. (Credit: Sam Tarling/CRS.) Alexis Moukarzel is a Lebanese architect. He said the different religious and ethnic…

DAILY SABAH WITH AFP ISTANBUL A reunited Syrian family (AFP Photo) Over 120 Syrian asylum seekers were brought safely to Rome Friday, bringing the number using a “humanitarian corridor” to seek refuge in Italy from the war in their homeland to 1,000.…

Crux Staff Vice President Mike Pence addresses the In Defense of Christians’ fourth-annual national advocacy summit in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. (Credit: AP Photo/Cliff Owen.) When Vice President Michael Pence declared Wednesday night that the U.S. would…

Vice president announces ‘enormous shift’ in policy; USAID to work directly with faith-based organizations in Iraq by Brendan Kirby | Advocates who have been warning that Iraq’s Christian communities are in danger of extinction cheered Vice President Mike Pence’s announcement that the United States…

Jardine Malado (Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah)Kurdish security men inspect people during Kurds independence referendum in Erbil, Iraq. Christian families were reportedly forced to evacuate from their homes in the village of Teleskof, Iraq on Tuesday after the Iraqi army stormed the area to confront Kurdish soldiers.…

Peshmerga fighters take aim from their position at the Altun Kubri checkpoint, 40kms from Kirkuk, on October 20, 2017. Iraqi forces clashed with Kurdish fighters as the central government said it wrestled back control of the last area of disputed Kirkuk province in the latest stage of a lightning operation following a controversial independence vote.…

By Renad Mansour A man walks next to a poster in Irbil, in the Iraqi region of Kurdistan, that calls on Kurds to vote for independence on the eve of the Sept. 25 referendum. (Mohamed Messsara/European Pressphoto Agency/EFE) Last week, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered his forces to retake the…

By John Newton A SENIOR Iraqi priest refused to leave Teleskov, northern Iraq – even after military forces gathered there for battle. Chaldean cleric Father Salar Kajo and nine Church workers remained in the Christian-majority town on the Nineveh Plains, around 19 miles north of Mosul, despite Iraqi and…

– By Catholic News Agency Banner our lady of lebanon statue at harissa lebanon on nov 1 2014 credit kevin jones cna 2 cna 11 14 14 Our Lady of Lebanon statue at Harissa, Lebanon in 2014 (Credit: Kevin Jones/CNA) The Church in Lebanon is working to aid the 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon,…