Monthly Archives: March 2015

Groups linked to ISIL may be targeted: Nicholson Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press OTTAWA — There will be no new Middle East aid packages unveiled to accompany the proposed expansion of Canada’s military mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, government officials said Wednesday.…

BY JANINE DI GIOVANNI AND CONOR GAFFEY FILED UNDER: World, Middle East, Middle East Christians, Islamic State, ISIS, Assyrian, Coptic Christians, Religion, Freedom of Religion Before jihadists overran this mountain town in 2013, Maaloula was one of the oldest Christian communities in Syria, where Western Aramaic—the language of Jesus…

The President and the First Lady will welcome His Holiness Pope Francis to the White House on Wednesday, September 23. During the visit, the President and the Pope will continue the dialogue, which they began during the President’s visit to the Vatican in March 2014, on their shared values and commitments on a wide range…

Honorable Laurent Fabius Foreign Minister Republic of France Dear Minister Fabius, On behalf of the Assyrian Universal Alliance and our affiliate organizations worldwide I thank you for being on the side of the persecuted minorities and taking initiative to call…

By Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper rises in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday March 24, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld OTTAWA – There will be no new Middle East aid packages unveiled to accompany the…

 By Reps. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and Juan Vargas (D-Calif.) Seventy years ago, as World War II came to a close, America took the lead in addressing the most urgent challenge of the conflict’s aftermath: finding homes and livelihoods for tens of millions of refugees and internally displaced persons. In addition…

CBC News Priest says ISIS insurgents are persecuting Chaldens in Iraq and Syria Daoud Baffro presides over of the Holy Family Chaldean Church in Windsor. (Dale Molnar/CBC) Increased Canadian military force to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria has the support of…

This photo posted by ISIL on the Internet on March 19, 2015, shows the moment the Takfiri militants blow up the Mar Behnam monastery in the Christian dominated town of Qaraqosh, Iraq. Members of the ISIL Takfiri militant group have blown up 10 houses belonging to…

By VIVIAN SALAMA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press TIKRIT, Iraq — The U.S.-led coalition targeting the Islamic State group has begun surveillance flights over the extremist-held city of Tikrit and sending intelligence to Iraqi forces fighting to retake Saddam Hussein’s hometown, a senior official said Tuesday.…

ntrepid Italian Filmmaker and Investigative Journalist Elisabetta Valgiusti traveled to Erbil in Kurdistan to document ‘religious cleansing’ of Nineveh’s Christians for an EWTN special, “Voices of the Persecuted: Nineveh’s Christians in Exile.” Airs 10 p.m. ET, Wednesday, April 1 on EWTN, www.ewtn.com/channelfinder.…

By Kathryn Jean Lopez “Media coverage is not about ratings, it is about lives,” Coptic Orthodox Bishop Angaelos said during a panel at the National Press Club. He’s based in London and came to the United States, as he has frequently in past months, to raise alarms, make pleas and express gratitude.…

Islamic State militants appear to have destroyed Christian and Shia Muslim shrines in Hamdaniya, in northern Iraq. On 19 March, the ISIS released photographs showing the destruction the of Mar Behnam’s tomb, which had been built by the Assyrian king Senchareb, and fighters holding their banner above a ransacked Shia mosque, while…

Siranush Ghazanchyan Assyrian Genocide 100The Assyrian Genocide and Research Center, SEYFO Center, publicly thanks the Republic of Armenia for officially recognizing the Assyrian Genocide of the early 20th century, on March 24th, 2015, PRWeb reports.…

ARA News Sargon David coverts to Islam after two months of detention by ISIS militants in northeastern Syria. Dohuk, Kurdistan Region – The Media Center of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) in “al-Barakah state” (in reference to Hasakah, northeastern Syria) released Monday a…

Posted by ACN News Michael J Robinson Christian Charity demands David Cameron take action on UN report. THE UK director of a leading Catholic charity has called on the Government to act to save persecuted Christians and other faith groups in Iraq and Syria after a UN report said recent atrocities there could be classed…

More than 125,000 of Iraq’s Christians have been forced to flee the homeland they have lived in for nearly 2,000 years because of ISIS violence and threat The following script is from “Iraq’s Christians” which aired on March 22, 2015. Lara Logan is the correspondent. Max McClellan, Jeff Newton and Richard Butler, producers.…

By Polly Mosendz Assyrians Displaced Assyrians, who fled from the villages around Tel Tamr, sit outside the Assyrian Church in al-Hasaka city, as they wait for news about the Assyrians abductees remaining in Islamic State hands March 9, 2015. Rodi Said/Reuters…

By Matthew Balan CBS’s Lara Logan refreshingly brought new attention to the plight of the ancient Christian communities in Iraq on Sunday’s 60 Minutes, as they face annihilation by ISIS. Logan pointed out how ISIS, “just like the Nazis marked the property of Jews, Christian homes…have been marked with this red symbol….When ISIS puts it…

First candidate Ted Cruz is running for president. The Texas Republican senator sent a tweet after midnight saying, “I’m running for president and I hope to earn your support!” Cruz, whose tweet landed on the fifth anniversary of the signing of Obamacare into law, will reprise his announcement this morning at Liberty University in Lynchburg,…

MASTER WORKS AND CONTEMPORARY ART With the compliments of Hay Hill Gallery, the pleasure of your company is requested to attend the private view of the exhibition of Ala Bashir ‘ Memories of Chairs “…