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By Mairead McArdle Female Kurdish soldiers. (Wikimedia Commons) (CNSNews.com) — A group of about 50 Syrian Christian women have left their homes, jobs, and children to form a new battalion to fight the encroaching ISIS terrorists. The battalion is called the Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two…
Read moreRita RizkFairfield Advance The small Assyrian family are looking forward to a bigger and brighter future for the sake of their two children. FROM ?bombs and chaos to peace and security, the Tchaba family are grateful to now call Fairfield home after escaping ISIS who took over their village in Syria.…
Read moreBaghdad – During the pre-Christmas retreat for priests and deacons of the Chaldean Archieparchy in Baghdad, held on Monday, December 21 in Baghdad in the presence of Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis I, the Primate of the Chaldean Church invited those present to favor a simple Christmas celebration and to focus on the essential…
Read moreYoung internally displaced Iraqis try to dig a drainage trench after heavy rains in early November at a camp in Baghdad. CNS photo/Ahmed Jalil, EPA By Doreen Abi-Raad, Catholic News Service BEIRUT – Catholic patriarchs from the Middle East encouraged their trouble people to…
Read moreMichele Rigby Assad (Courtesy of Michele Rigby Assad) Christal Hayes Christal Hayes Contact ReporterOrlando Sentinel Mount Dora native featured on @ABC2020 for work during mission to rescue Iraqis from #ISIS A Tavares High School graduate will be featured on ABC’s 20/20 on Friday night for a…
Read moreBy MURIEL PEARSON MIGUEL SANCHO Lauren Effron Joseph and Michele Assad shown here during an interview with ABC News “20/20.”ABC News WATCH Inside Iraq Camp For Refugees Who Escaped ISIS: Part 1…
Read moreIn his message to the faithful, the Chaldean Patriarchate remembers the many injustices that struck the Christian community. He assured: “We will not take one step backwards”. Mar Sako thanks those fighting for “the rights of all citizens.” Refugees from Mosul, forced Islamization, expropriated families, major emergencies.…
Read more“The impact that… unmentionable violence and cruelty has had on individual lives is utterly heart-breaking.” By John Pontifex HRH The Prince of Wales has delivered an impassioned appeal on behalf of persecuted Christians in the Middle East, saying that that the growing crisis of…
Read moreby Staff Reporter Prince Charles addressed the audience yesterday (Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk) He tells religious leaders that urgent action is needed to save the faith in Iraq and elsewhere Prince Charles has warned that Christianity in the Middle East is “under threat like never before”.…
Read moreBy Clare Creegan Primary school children from south London stood in solidarity with their persecuted brothers and sisters in Syria by holding a toy sale held in aid of suffering Christians. The fundraiser was organised by staff and students of St Anselm’s Catholic Primary School in Tooting Bec and supported by Catholic charity Aid to…
Read moreReuters Many Christians have fled Baghdad and their homes have been illegally seized. Posters have gone up on walls in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, warning Christian women to wear veils. The posters have been placed near churches and in areas where there are still…
Read moreBy SD6 John Carroll SAN DIEGO – Which refugees should be let into the United States and which ones shouldn’t has been in the news a lot lately. For the last 18 months, since the rise of ISIS, one local man has been working to re-settle Chaldean Christians and other religious minorities from Iraq and…
Read moreBy Clare Creegan A LEADING Catholic charity has announced a series of extra emergency aid packages for people in Syria and Iraq escaping persecution and grappling with the onset of winter. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is rolling out 19 relief programmes in Syria and a further 11 in Iraq – providing food,…
Read moreInternally displaced Christian children receive toys at a church in Iraq for Christmas – REUTERS (Vatican Radio) Religious tolerance for Christians in large parts of Iraq has deteriorated after the rise of the so-called Islamic State. Under Sharia law in areas controlled by the Islamist group, Christians have been forced to convert or flee.…
Read moreBy Zachary Leshin Yezidi Kurds protest on the one-year anniversary of ISIS’ 2014 invasion of Sinjar in northern Iraq. (AP photo) (CNSNews.com) – Chaldean and Yezidi leaders described the genocide of their people at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to members of Congress…
Read moreBy Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service Migrants walk along at sunset after crossing into Hungary from the border with Serbia near Roszke, Hungary, Aug. 29. CNS photo/Bernadett Szabo, Reuters ROME – The survival of Christianity in the Middle East has reached such a critical point that the chances of dialogue and reconciliation in the…
Read moreCountry’s PM pledges to take in 153 Iraqi Christians fleeing war World Bulletin / News Desk The Czech government said Monday it had decided for the first time to accept 37 Christian families fleeing the ISIL group in Iraq.…
Read moreBy Kimberly Scharfenberger | Christians in Iraq have suffered great persecution from radical Islamist terror group the Islamic State (ISIS), but a new Catholic university in Erbil — the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan — recently opened its doors to students, and the Archbishop of Erbil said he hopes that its presence will motivate Iraqi Christians…
Read moreThe Associated Press A migrant stands behind a banner as people queue up for food at a former… (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP) ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The latest developments in Europe’s immigration crisis. All times local:…
Read moreAFP-JIJI PRAGUE – The Czech government said Monday it had decided for the first time to accept 37 Christian families fleeing the Islamic State group in Iraq. “They are members of the Christian minority who found themselves in a very difficult situation following the Islamic State aggression in Iraq and asked the Czech Republic…
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