Monthly Archives: October 2018

The attached pictures are of a procession of prayer and thanksgiving from the town of Baqofa to Batnaya to celebrate the reopening of the road there (mentioned in the story). The procession culminated in a special Mass and celebration at the ancient church of Mar Kyriakos in Batnaya celebrated by representatives of the Diocese of…

1 / 12 -Based on traces of pigment discovered on other relief panels, Christie’s New York has created a digital reconstruction to show what the rare Assyrian relief panel it is auctioning might have originally looked like.CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2018 Rare 3,000-year-old Assyrian art work expected to fetch more than $10M at auction…

In this Aug. 22, 2018 photo, Ardawan, 4, eats melon on the kitchen floor of an orphanage for Yazidi children, in Sheikhan, Iraq. The child’s father and four siblings have been missing since August 2014, when Islamic State militants took over northern and western Iraq; he lives at the orphanage with his mother and two…

By Murcadha O Flaherty YOUNG widows in Syria have expressed their personal thanks for emergency aid – shelter, medicine and education – which they say has helped turn their lives round as they struggle to bring up their children.…

Souleman Yusph was arrested in early October by Assyrian militias working for the Kurdish administration over his articles slamming attempts to close the Christian schools. During captivity, he suffered physical and psychological abuse. Despite the intimidation, he plans to continue his work. He is also disappointed by the actions of the…

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Pompeo Offers New Iraqi Leader US Support in Returning Christians to Former IS Strongholds Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a call to congratulate new Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on forming a government, emphasized US backing for efforts to let…

The government claimed a new agreement with Iraq allowed the detentions. Only no such agreement existed. Noah Lanard Amal Hana protests in June 2017 in Detroit after a family member was detained by…

via Kenneth Timmerman The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is helping the Islamic State (ISIS) rebuild a clandestine terror network inside Iraq that poses an ongoing security threat, according to Iraqi National Police Brigadier General Aref al-Zebari.…

By Rudaw An Iraqi soldier walks past ancient ruins of Nimrud after the city was recaptured from ISIS in 2016. File photo: Safin Hamed/AFP ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Iraqi government is in contact with New York authorities about a piece of Iraqi history that will go up for auction next week.…

The despair and hope of the country’s persecuted religious minorities. Last year, Vice President Mike Pence pledged support to Christians, Yazidis, and other minorities forced out of their homelands in Iraq by ISIS. Religious freedom advocates and groups in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq cheered the news.…

Dana Taib Menmy REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani casts his vote at a polling station, during parliamentary elections, Erbil, Iraq, Sept. 30, 2018.…

By Sarah Cwiek A 2017 Detroit protest in support of Iraqi Christians facing deportation. Michigan Radio More than 100 Iraqi nationals being held in immigration custody should be released because the government lied about Iraq’s willingness to repatriate them, the detainees’…

Bryant Harris US President Donald Trump closes his eyes in prayer along with pastor Andrew Brunson, after his release from two years of Turkish detention, in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, US, Oct. 13, 2018.…

Source: Xinhua| ERBIL, Iraq, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) — The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has won the most seats in the Sept. 30 parliamentary elections of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq.…

Karina Bland Arizona Republic Eric Jackson on duty in Iraq in 2003. Courtesy of Eric Jackson Only two people had signed up for the two-hour concealed carry permit course at…

John L. Allen Jr. Christians in India in an undated file photo. (Credit: AP.) ROME – Virtually everyone taking part in the Oct. 3-28 Synod of Bishops on young people has said that the presence of more than 30 young delegates inside the hall has altered the chemistry – it’s looser, more informal, more pumped-up,…

Ruins in predominantly Christian Qaraqosh / Getty Images BY: Jeffrey Cimmino Programs to rebuild Iraqi Christian communities destroyed by Islamic State are being implemented with the support of $300 million from the United States. Approximately…

By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter (Photo: Archdiocese of Erbil)Father Thabet Habib inspects damage in the town of Karamles, Iraq right after the town was liberated from the Islamic State in October 2016. The United States government has agreed to a partnership with a leading Catholic…

The family, the Church, the world Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon, Myanmar, is pictured in a 2017 photo. (CNS photo/Nyein Chan Naing, EPA) Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon, the first cardinal ever in Myanmar, laments that “Love is a commodity now,” one more challenge young people face in a materialistic,…

Iraqi soldiers inspect the debris at St. George’s Monastery, a historical Chaldean Catholic church on the outskirts of Mosul, which was destroyed by the Daesh. (AFP file photo) Mark Green was in Rome to tell Vatican officials about on-the-ground results from US development assistance to Iraq’s religious minorities…