Monthly Archives: October 2015

Erdogan — an Obama ally — may give this man a life sentence for building bridges with Turkey’s Christians and other minorities. Please read — he asked for me by name to help him. by Irina Tsukerman “You know, he is in prison now. He is really not doing well. His daughter was visiting,…

By Stefan J, Bos, Chief Internationalk Correspondent BosNewsLife aidtochurchLONDON/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife) — An influential Catholic charity and advocacy group warns in a new report that Christianity may be “eradicated” in several nations as persecution of Christians has worsened over the last two years in countries such as China, Indonesia, Iraq, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan and…

By , World Watch Monitor Sister Hayat, 30, was forced to flee her monastery in Mosul and is now helping refugees in Erbil. An Iraqi nun forced to flee her monastery by Islamic State is now helping refugees in the city of Erbil.…

By Kenya Sinclair (CALIFORNIA NETWORK) Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) Does the world ignore because they are Christian, Assyrian or both? Months after kidnapping over 250 Assyrian Christians, ISIS recently released a graphic video where three Christians were forced to state their names and admit they were…

© Flickr/ Bernt Rostad A recent investigation by Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter has found that the Assyrian community in the city of Gothenburg, southwestern Sweden is being threatened by ISIL-inspired messages to “convert [to Islam] or die.” On Tuesday, when Swedish Assyrian Markus Samuelsson arrived at his restaurant in…

By Molly Thomas Molly Thomas and cameramen tour Harshem camp near Erbil, Iraq, with the Iraqi pastor who runs it. Before the 2003 U.S. invasion, over 1 million Christians lived in Iraq. Today, conservative estimates say less than 500,000 remain. Perhaps nowhere in the world is…

Jessilyn Justice Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East could eradicate Christianity in the region in the next five years. (reuters) A report released by an English charity reveals Christianity in Iraq is on the fast track for extinction: The religion could be eliminated completely from the biblical heartland within five years.…

But Why Aren’t Displaced Christians Making It to the US? by VICTOR GAETAN Hawre Khalid/Catholic Relief Services Refugee families who fled the advance of Islamic State forces in Sinjar shelter under a bridge in the Kurdish city of Duhok. Pope Francis leads by example.…

• Charity’s report receives backing from Prime Minister David Cameron and a message of support from the Pope By Clare Creegan CHRISTIANITY looks set to disappear from key parts of the Middle East, according to a report due out today (Tuesday, 13th October) which highlights a worsening cycle of persecution.…

Syrian Kurds, Arab rebels and a Syriac militia have announced an alliance to fight the “Islamic State.” The groups, backed with US air power and arms, are expected to launch an offensive against IS. Syrien Krieg IS Tel Abyad The new force, the Syrian Democratic Forces, formally cements an alliance that has…

(Photo: Reuters/Mohamed Azakir) Assyrians hold banners as they march in solidarity with the Assyrians abducted by Islamic State fighters in Syria earlier this week, in Beirut, Lebanon, February 28, 2015. Militants in northeast Syria are now estimated to have abducted at least 220 Assyrian Christians this week, a group monitoring the war reported. The banner…

October 10, 2015 On the 6th of October 2015 Dr. Ramsay Dass M.D, President of American Middle East Christians Congress (Amecc) had a very cordial and frank discussion regarding the American Middle East Christians in the Middle East, Diaspora and the United States of America in Birmingham, Michigan with Honorable United States Congressman Darin…

By Anugrah Kumar , Christian Post ContributorA refugee woman from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, sits with a child inside a tent at Nowruz refugee camp in Qamishli, northeastern Syria Aug. 17, 2014. Proclaiming a caliphate straddling parts of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State militants have…

St Joseph’s Cathedral Hundreds of Iraqi Christians living in Ankawa, a suburb in Erbil, staged in a peaceful demonstration on Friday, 9 October, to protest against the arrival of sleazy nightclubs offering gambling and prostitution in the area where their community is mainly concentrated.…

Newslines • World • ISIS Executes 3 Assyrian Christians in Hasakah, Syria Islamic State militants have killed three Assyrian Christian captives who were among almost 200 Christians abducted earlier this year in northeastern Syria, two human rights monitoring groups said on Thursday.…

by Newsmediaon Islamic State militants, ISIS have supposedly slayed three Christian hostages which are with their detention taking into consideration that February and so are intimidating to get rid of 200 more in case the liberate of usd100,000 per inmate is not really paid for.…

By Vincent Funaro , Christian Post Reporter (Photo: Reuters/Mohamed Azakir) Assyrians hold banners as they march in solidarity with the Assyrians abducted by Islamic State fighters in Syria earlier this week, in Beirut, Labanon, February 28, 2015. Militants in northeast Syria are now estimated to have abducted at least 220 Assyrian…

Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad, Iraq, arrived for a session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican in 2014. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) By Inés San Martín Vatican correspondent ROME — Iraq’s top Catholic official says the United States has a “moral obligation” to…

by ISIS. (Image via aina.org) by Nina Shea The Islamist genocide — and there can be no doubt that it is genocide, despite world silence – of the Christians, Yazidis, Mandeans, and other defenseless ethno-religious minorities of Syria and Iraq continues. The killing of these peoples is deliberate and…

On the 6th of October 2015 Dr. Ramsay Dass M.D, President of American Middle East Christians Congress (Amecc) had a very cordial and frank discussion regarding the American Middle East Christians in the Middle East, Diaspora and the United States of America in Birmingham, Michigan with Honorable United States Congressman Darin…