Monthly Archives: November 2015

Top ISIS Leader in Libya Killed by US Airstrike By Jack Phillips, Epoch Times Heavy smoke billows from the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, Mosul province, during an operation by Iraqi Kurdish forces backed by US-led strikes on November 12, 2015, to retake the town from the Islamic State group and cut a key supply…

by David Rupert With the terrible news of nearly 150 people killed in the Parisian terrorist attacks last week, the fate of thousands of Christian refugees from Syria and Iraq are further complicated. It’s understandable. Lives are gone and families are changed forever. There is pain and…

Posted by: Renad Mansour During his address to the UN General Assembly in September 2015, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared that the al-Hashd al-Shaabi (popular mobilization) forces are part of the official state. Yet, it is no secret that Abadi has never been comfortable with the Hashd—an umbrella organization of various non-state armed…

By Michael W. Chapman Chaldean Catholic Archbishop The Catholic archbishop of Mosul, Iraq, who lost his diocese to the Islamic State last year and is now in exile in Erbil (Iraqi Kurdistan), warned that the suffering in Iraq was only a prelude of what European and Western Christians will “suffer in the near future,”…

Iraq’s Christian community is opposing a new law forcing children to become Muslims if their father converts to Islam or their mother marries a Muslim. SOURCES Protestante Digital, Ankawa.com AUTHOR Evangelical Focus ERBIL 16 NOVEMBER 2015 16:49 h Iraqi girl holds a sign: ‘I am Iraqi. I am a Christian.’ Hundreds of members of different…

Iraqi Christian Refugees Nina Shea of the Washington, DC-based Hudson Institute Center for Religious Freedman is the most outspoken critic of Administration policies towards Middle Eastern Christian and other non-Muslim religious minorities. The latest episode concerns a proposed ruling by the State Department of minorities threatened by…

By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Rounding out the membership of the council that will coordinate the follow-up to the Synod of Bishops on the family and help prepare the next synod assembly, Pope Francis named the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic…

By Julia A. Seymour Associated Press/Photo by Bram Janssen Internally displaced Christian children pray during Mass at the St. Joseph Cathedral in Ankawa, Irbil, northern Iraq. Religious minority groups in Iraq are protesting a new law that would force some…

By: Kate Grumke 8:37 AM, Nov 16, 2015 When President Obama spoke about the Paris attacks, he reiterated that he isn’t changing his stance on the fight against ISIS. “While we are very clear-eyed about the very, very difficult road still ahead, the United States in partnership with our coalition is…

by Sylvia Adams “It takes nearly a year for a refugee to be processed into the United States”. On Friday, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson urged Congress to stop the Obama administration from allowing in more refugees from the regions. “Attacking Paris, the city of light, reminds us that there is no middle ground in going…

By Eric Czarnik Chaldean Community Foundation President Martin Manna and Program Manager Sharon Hannawa stand outside their group’s new building in Sterling Heights Nov. 12. (Photo by Deb Jacques)…

Patriarch Sako urges Iraq’s president to modify legislation that would force some children to embrace Islam by Bradley Eli, M.Div., MA.Th. • November 12, 2015 Filed Under: Islam, Middle East, Christian Persecution, Religious Freedom, Muslims, Yes…

Special to WorldTribune.com Hundreds of Christian fighters from across Syria have united to defend a biblical Syrian Christian town from being conquered by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant terrorist organization, the head of the Syriac Orthodox church has said. Displaced Assyrians outside the Assyrian Church in al-Hasaka city.As ISIL militants…

Michael Isikoff Chief Investigative Correspondent A Yazidi girl, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing last year. (Photo: Youssef Boudlal/Reuters) The Obama administration is moving to designate the Islamic State’s murderous attacks…

Yazidis are asking for the Russian military to liberate more than 3,500 Yazidis held captive by the Islamic State, including children in jihadi training camps. They say the young hostages are subjected to “mental conditioning” and being trained as Islamists. … By Douglas Burton — Special to The Washington Times – – Wednesday, November 11,…

by Simon Caldwell An altar server prays alongside others during Mass in early April at a church in Baghdad, Iraq (Photo: CNS) Patriarch Sako says law shows a ‘total disregard’ for the values of Iraqi civilisation The patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church has called upon Iraq’s president to veto…

BY SAMUEL SMITH , CP REPORTER November 11, 2015|5:59 pm   Hundreds of Christian fighters from across Syria have united to defend a biblical Syrian Christian town from being conquered by the Islamic State terrorist organization, the head of the Syriac Orthodox church has said. As IS militants continue to push west toward the Syrian…

Published November 13, 2015 FoxNews.com BREAKING NEWS –  The Pentagon said late Thursday it had launched an airstrike in Syria targeting “Jihadi John”, a British national seen in videos depicting the beheading of hostages held by ISIS. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook confirmed that the airstrike in Raqqa was directed at the notorious militant, also known…

By: Jake Godin 5:07 PM, Nov 12, 2015 Kurdish peshmerga forces, backed by smaller militias, are trying to recapture the ISIS-held city of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq.The offensive is receiving support from the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition. Dozens of airstrikes have targeted ISIS positions in and around the city leading up to Thursday’s offensive and are continuing.The goal is to…

Photo by: Uncredited In this photo released on March 7, 2015 by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, a member of the Islamic State group holds the IS flag as he dismantles a cross on the top of a church in Mosul, Iraq. (Militant website via AP)…