Monthly Archives: January 2015

Tarik El Barakah is a journalist and Morocco World News correspondent in Rabat. Morocco Among the Safest Countries for Christians in the Arab World: report Rabat – Morocco is among the most religiously tolerant countries in the Arab World and one of the safest for Christians, according to an international organization. Open Doors, a non-profit…

Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, head of the Chaldean Catholic Church instructed priest, Noel Gorgis to return to the war-torn country to strengthen the church there. Father Gorgis refused. The dispute over the priest’s assignment goes back at least several months, and Gorgis went public with his story late last year.…

by Oliver Maksan and John Newton • Priest condemns world media for “silence” over continuing Syria violence SYRIAN university students in Homs were the target of a terror attack that left 15 people dead and at least 50 injured, according to a priest based in the city when the blast took place.…

Dr. Hala Arida, a dentist at Caritas Jordan’s Medical Centre in Amman – RV (Vatican Radio) Growing up in Syria’s rural countryside, some of them have never seen a dentist or a doctor in their entire lives. And running for their lives from conflict, hundreds of thousands of them today find themselves in neighbouring countries…

Christian Today staff writer (Photo: Aid to the Church in Need) Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako A Chaldean priest is disobeying his bishop’s order to return to ISIS-controlled Iraq because he fears for his life.…

We have the pleasure of inviting you to yet another significant side event at the UN Office in Geneva this Monday, 16 January 2015, one day before Turkey’s Universal Periodic Review by the United Nations: Turkey’s Native Aramean People: The Case of an Unrecognised Minority The event, which has attracted the attention of a number…

Catholic World News The Eastern-rite bishop responsible for ministering to Syriac Catholics in the United States and Canada lamented Western political indifference to the fate of Syrian and Iraqi Christians. “You can’t even imagine,” said Bishop Yousif Habash in an interview with the National…

By Oliver Maksan ACN News • The Papal Ambassador in Iraq hopes that the situation of the Christians in the country will improve in 2015 The Apostolic Nuncio in Iraq, Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, expressed the hope that the Christians driven out of northern Iraq by the terrorist militia “Islamic State” would be able…

Ankawa.com – Younes Thanon – Translated by Rashwan Issam Al-Daqaq A Christian citizen in the city of Mosul cried loudly because he was forced by the militants of the Islamic State to convert to Islam. He asked those people of good conscience to end the control of the Islamic State on the city of Mosul.…

by DOREEN ABI RAAD A displaced Iraqi-Christian woman from Qaraqosh displays her most prized possession last month in her tented home located on the grounds of Mar Elia Catholic Church in Erbil, Iraq. Syriac-Catholic Bishop Barnaba Yousif Habash reflects on the plight of the Christians…

Prof. Fouad Y. Kazanghi Hormuzd Anton Rassam was native of Iraq . He was first archeologist from the Orient who was born in Mosul (Nineve) in 1826 and died in 1910 . His father was an archdean in the Chaldean Catholic Church .When he was 20 years old , he left his school and joined…

Reuters Displaced people from the minority Yazidi community flee violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar, Iraq, August 2014. Adeba Shaker, a 14-year-old from Iraq’s minority Yazidi sect, recalled the day when she smiled again for the first time since her abduction by Islamic State militants.…

by Joseph Mahmoud Mar Sako calls on “our brother” Muslims, to be the “first” to reject “all forms” of discrimination and violence. He points the finger at those who use religion to gain power. He invites the faithful of Islam to be promoters of a project of inter-religious peace and harmony, starting from an “open…

“More than half of my diocese has now fled their homes” – Bishop Dashe Dome By John Pontifex A BISHOP, whose diocese in north-east Nigeria has suffered most at the hands of Boko Haram, wants the West to send in military forces to defeat the militants.…

by William Bigelow Though the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq, Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, claims he reveres Pope Francis as the “Father of all Christians,” he has defied the Pope’s decision to permit Chaldean priests, including one based in San Diego, to stay in the United States rather than obey Sako’s…

Ankawa.com – Younes Thanon – Translated by Rashwan Issam Al-Daqaq Witnesses from Mosul confirmed that militants of the Islamic State burned a number of literary books in addition to burning historical Christian manuscripts in the city. The witnesses added to the correspondent of Ankawa.com site that militants from the…

Ankawa.com – Younes Thanon – Translated by Rashwan Issam Al-Daqaq Sources of Ankawa.com in the city of Mosul said the terrorist organization of the Islamic State implemented execution campaign carried out in different ways against convicted people, according their laws.…

Staffan de Mistura speaks at a press conference in Geneva January 15. – AP (Vatican Radio) The ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq and the suffering of persecuted Christians there was the focus of a prayer effort in Rome on Thursday. The vigil took place as the United Nations issued a call for a solutions…

By World Watch Monitor As the US Secretary of State meets his Iranian counterpart in a bid to revive stalled talks over Iran’s nuclear programme, human rights experts are keen that issues of freedom of religion are not overlooked. This week, the UK Foreign Office has said that it’s raised its concern with the Iranian…

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis named new bishops for Chaldean Catholics in Sydney and Toronto and confirmed the election of a Chaldean priest, who is currently ministering in Detroit, Michigan, to be a new auxiliary bishop in Baghdad.…