Monthly Archives: October 2015

By Clare Creegan and Oliver Maksan MORE and more Christian refugees driven out of their towns and villages by terrorist militia Daesh (ISIS) are leaving Iraq – having lost all hope that they will be able to return home. Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Chaldean Catholic Archbishop…

by Breitbart News Los Angeles, CA4 In an interview with Kate O’Hare in CatholicVote.org, Chaldean Catholic Bishop Mar Bawai Soro explained the Islamist threat confronting the West and why it’s important that his fellow Iraqi Christians retain their ancestral home in the cradle of Christianity.…

Dler Ibrahim – Erbil Under the motto of “Peace for All… Yes For Peace and Peaceful coexistence” Erbil Marathon will organize it’s fourth edition in 30th October 2015. 30.10.2015 Come along and Run, Run for yourself for your health, Run for Peace, Peace for all. Runners & Peace lovers of both genders all are welcome…

Sydney – 22 October 2015 Mr Guy Zangari, MP, State Member for Fairfield, Shadow Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events, Shadow Minister for Sport, Shadow Minister for Corrections, Shadow Minister for Emergency Services, and Shadow Minister for Veterans Affairs , made a statement in the Legislative Assembly of NSW State Parliament on 16th September…

New housing on Carman Street is giving hope to local civic leaders that Syrian refugees and others will move into Detroit’s NorthTown community. (Photo by Merinda Valley) (The Center for Michigan | Bridge Magazine) By Bill McGraw (Bridge Magazine) and Merinda Valley (Arab American News)…

By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter (Photo: Reuters/Youssef Boudlal) Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the village of Qaraqosh, seek refuge inside a church building in Arbil, north of Baghdad, August 11, 2014. Iraqi Christian families sought sanctuary in the church after fleeing towns and villages to escape the advance of Islamic State…

Father Douglas Bazi recounted the terrible night in which ISIS ran Christians out of the historic city of Mosul. by Chris Queen We’ve heard stories of the horrors that the Islamic State forces have inflicted upon the Christians throughout the Middle East, but rarely do we hear a firsthand account. Father Douglas Bazi, an Iraqi…

Displaced Sunni people, who fled the violence in the city of Ramadi, arrive at the outskirts of Baghdad in Iraq, April 17, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer By Benedetta Argentieri ERBIL, Iraq, Oct 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When a mob attacked Abu Jasin on the streets of Erbil in northern Iraq, he feared he would never be…

Hazel Torres (Syrian Academic Foundation) The ‘convert or die’ message written on the wall of the Asmar family’s pizza parlour in Gothenburg, Sweden. Christians in multi-cultural Sweden are increasingly finding themselves in a situation similar to what the Jews in Nazi Germany faced just before and during World War II.…

By Leah Marieann Klett (news@gospelherald.com) The graffiti painted on a restaurant warns Christians to convert or they will be killed. Fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now called the Islamic State group, marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)…

By RUDAW Clothing displayed in the Directorate of Assyrian Culture and Traditional Art Museum in Ainkawa. Photo: Rudaw. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The Directorate of Assyrian Culture and Traditional Art Museum is now open in the township of Ainkawa in Erbil, and part of it is allocated for clothing from 18 Assyrian villages.…

Young refugees resettled in Canada thank Jason Kenney. Photo: CIJnews Posted by: Ilana Shneider On October 6, 2015, Minister of National Defence and Minister for Multiculturalism Jason Kenney spoke at The Good Shepherd Chaldean Church in Toronto in front of a crowd of several hundred Christian from Iraq and Syria.…

Sweden Polis Police Oliver Lane / Breitbart London by Oliver Lane17 A spate of Islamist graffiti in the multiculturalist Swedish city Gothenburg has been compared to the harassment of the Jewish community in Germany in the 1930s, with…

Merinda Valley – The Arab American News & Bill McGraw – Bridge Magazine | New housing on Carman Street is giving hope to local civic leaders that Syrian refugees and others will move into Detroit’s NorthTown community (Photo by Merinda Valley) Nida Samona and her family were among many Chaldean immigrants from Iraq who…

Priest tells how his humanitarian aid – sponsored by charities – inspired a friend to plot his escape By John Pontifex FATHER Jacques Mourad has told how he escaped Daesh (ISIS) in Syria with the help of a friend whose family had been helped by the priest’s programme of aid to the poor…

Sydney – 16 October, 2015 The Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) – Australian Chapter is pleased to announce the first meeting of the Assyria Parliamentary Friendship Group took place on Thursday, 15th October, 2015 , in the Parliament of New South Wales. Members from upper and lower houses of the Parliament attended this meeting along with…

– Kate O’Hare Chaldean Catholic Bishop Mar Bawai Soro Driven out by the militant Muslim group ISIS, thousands of displaced Christians from Iraq’s Nineveh Plain — those lucky enough to have escaped with their lives — are refugees in other parts of Iraq, including Kurdistan.…

Sinister graffiti daubed on businesses owned by Assyrian Christians in city Messages also included ‘the caliphate is here’ along with the ISIS symbol Victim said: ‘I felt a sudden chill down my spine. It’s terribly painful’ By Simon Tomlinson for MailOnline Christians living in Sweden have been warned to ‘convert to Islam or die’ in…

Hazel Torres Thousands of Iraqi Christians and Yazidis camp in an open field after fleeing from ISIS forces that have taken over their land and started waging a campaign of genocide on them. The killing and persecution of Christians increased in the Middle East, Africa and Asia…

West Bloomfield, Michigan October 13, 2015 At the invitation of the Iraqi Christians Advocacy and Empowerment Institute (ICAE), more than 40 Iraqi Christians , and other minority leaders, community activists, clergy, and local media participated in a candid discussion with ICAE guest speaker and friend of the community; the Honorable U.S. Senator Gary Peters.…