Monthly Archives: March 2019

By Wallace Henley, CP Exclusive Despite findings by Robert Mueller and his investigative team that there was no collusion between Donald Trump and his campaign with Russia leading up to the 2016 presidential…

Geoffrey P. Johnston According to the U.S. State Department, ISIS — also known as the Islamic State, ISIL and Daesh — committed genocide against Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims during a bloody reign of terror in parts of Iraq and Syria.…

Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, greats a young displaced Iraqi in Irbil, Iraq, May 4, 2015. (CNS photo/John E. Kozar, CNEWA) By Carol Glatz • Catholic News Service…

On Wednesday morning, March 27, 2019, a prayer service held by the Chaldean Church in Iraq at the Church of St. Paul in Mosul, with candles and flowers on the altar and around it for the sake of all victims’ souls of the “death” ferry accident on 21 March 2019.…

Prophet Ezekiel’s burial place demonstrates religious diversity and promotes the coexistence of faiths Ezekiel’s tomb is draped in a cloth carrying the Arabic for “Peace be upon Ezekiel.” (MEE/Leila Molana Allen) By Lizzie Porter in Al-Kifl, Iraq…

The medieval king’s Islamophobic admirers ignore his record of promoting comity between Christians and Muslims. Giorgi LomsadzeRight-wing Georgian activists carry an image of the medieval king David the Builder in an anti-Muslim march in Tbilisi in 2017. (photo: Giorgi Lomsadze)…

Iraqi families displaced during fighting between Iraqi security forces and the Islamic State group, June 3, 2016. (AP/ Khalid Mohammed)Whether or not ISIS will ever strike again, its brutal legacy will live on for generations in the shattered lives and recurring nightmares of their victims.…

Kurdistan 24The parishioners of this church have previously been subject to violence, namely in 2010, when gunmen of the Islamic State’s progenitor stormed the building and took hostage worshipers. (Photo: Associated Press/Hadi Mizban)…

Saad Salloum REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed Shiite Muslims listen to Sheikh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai speak during Friday prayers at the Imam Hussein shrine in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq, Aug. 8, 2014. KARBALA, Iraq — A high-ranking Shiite cleric delegation from Najaf visited the holy Yazidi…

At the request of the premier, the deputies voted for the dismissal of Nawfal Hammadi al-Sultan and his two deputies. Card Sako: reconstruction needs the help of the international community. Since the tragedy the city has…

written by Gregory Pappas A new book is being released in days by Harvard University Press by two leading Israeli genocide scholars about the genocide of Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Christians in Turkey. According to the book description, The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924, the…

Luke de Pulford An Iranian woman prays on Christmas Suspend your disbelief for a moment, and try to imagine you’re an Iranian, in Iran. You were born into an observant Muslim family and brought up with all the customs of your inherited faith.…

Assyrian Universal Alliance in Australia meets with the Hon. David Coleman MP Sydney – 22 March 2019 Today Friday 22nd March 2019, a delegation representing the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) and the Assyrian Australian National Federation (AANF) attended a meeting a with the Hon…

Nour Eltigani Saudi Arabia: a country that has been the center of attention for many years because of its oppressive policies towards minorities such as women and foreign workers. However, with the recent introduction of the 2030 reform vision launched by its monarch King Mohammed Bin Salman, it has hit many firsts as…

Iraqi culture officials plan to open four other museums in the southern province Visitors tour the newly opened Sumer gallery in southern Iraq’s Basra museum. AFP Visitors tour the newly opened Sumer gallery in southern Iraq’s Basra museum. AFP Basra Museum opened its doors to the…

The Homshetsi, Laz and Syriac are among the peoples fighting to preserve their mother tongue and cultureMetropolitan Saliba Ozmen shows the bible of the Syriac Orthodox Church written in Syriac (MEE/Nimet Kirac) By Nimet Kirac in Artvin and Mardin, Turkey…

Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus Catholic prelates in Syria, accompanied by Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, president of Caritas Internationalis, visited the eastern Ghouta region outside of Damascus and saw “unspeakable suffering”.…

Iraqi Chaldean Christian children queue up to receive their First Communion during mass at the Apostles Peter and Paul Chaldean Catholic Church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on July 13, 2018. (Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images) Read Newsmax: Persecution of Christians Remains Elusive for US Catholics | Newsmax.com Urgent: Do…

CNS photo/Muhammad Hamed, Reuters A young Syrian refugee holds a watermelon at his shop in the Zaatari refugee camp near Mafraq, Jordan, June 22, 2018. “A lot of young men left Syria because they didn’t want to fight in the conflict,” Maha Yahya, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, told Catholic News Service. (CNS…

By Mario Schiavone |Christian population in Syria is aging fast The Syrian population lives in an undetermined condition, without “peace or war”. An uncertain and difficult situation, which is becoming unsustainable for the weakest, and which sees an impressive decline in Christians, decreased in some areas by 77 percent compared to the times before the…