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By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter Nadia Murad Basee, a 21-year-old Iraqi woman of the Yazidi faith, speaks to members of the Security Council during a meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York, December 16, 2015. A 21-year-old Iraqi woman whose family was massacred by the Islamic State terror…
Read moreWaleed Yalda Matooka… Passed more than a year to challenge the odds and suffering caused by displacement forced our own immigration because of the occupation of our lands, our homes by ISIS militants in Nineveh plain and force us on immigration and asylum to countries adjacent to Iraq because of the deteriorating living conditions in…
Read moreGeorge Clooney and wife Amal meet with German chancellor about Syrian refugeesFriday FEB12, 2016 Taking a break from promoting his latest film, “Hail, Caesar!,” in Germany,George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, paid a visit to Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday. The actor-activist and the human-rights attorney sat down for a…
Read moreGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, left, attend a joint press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. (Markus Schreiber/Associated Press) By Associated Press February 11…
Read moreBishop Francis Kalabat When The Arab American News opposed the invasion of Iraq, some community members accused us of being anti-Shi’a and pro-Saddam. About a decade later, this charge resurfaced when we called for rethinking the Ashura procession. Meanwhile, others claim we are a Shi’a paper for supporting the resistance in Lebanon, although we…
Read moreVATICAN CITY – Pope Francis met on Wednesday with Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi in Vatican City, where they discussed the situation of Christians in that Arab country and the need to protect their rights, the Holy See said in a statement. During their meeting, they touched upon good bilateral relations, the life of the…
Read moreResidents inspect the site of a car bomb blast in New Baghdad, January 12, 2016. Radical militias with Iranian support are reportedly attacking Christian communities in Iraq, seizing property and sites of cultural interest. Lisa Daftari of Foreign Desk wrote Tuesday that this was happening especially around…
Read moreCaleb Romero Iran-backed militia have taken control of Christian houses, whilst seizing property belonging to churches in Baghdad. According to the Assyrian International News Agency, militia targeted the residences of Christians forcing them out of their home. Members of the Iraqi Parliament said that…
Read moreCanberra – 9 February 2016 As part of its intensive campaign to promote the Assyrian cause on the national and international level, a delegation of the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) and the Assyrian Australian National Federation (AANF) attended the 2016 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) NGO forum on Human Rights that was held…
Read moreNEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Knights of Columbus is asking those considering a Lenten sacrifice to give “40 Bucks for Lent” and use the hashtag #40BucksForLent to help Middle Eastern Christians and other religious minorities suffering religious persecution there. “Since many people give up something for Lent, we wanted to provide…
Read moreRenad Mansour El-Erian Fellow, Carnegie Middle East Center In Iraq, the fight to rid the country of the Islamic State (referred to colloquially in Arabic as Daesh) is taking longer than officials and analysts expected. For instance, U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General Vincent Stewart, the Director of the Defense…
Read moreVatican City: Pope Francis held talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi at the Vatican which centred on the rights of Christians and ethnic minorities in the Middle Eastern country, inter-faith dialogue and national reconciliation. An official statement called the talks on Wednesday “cordial” and said Francis and…
Read moreErbil (Agenzia Fides) – In the city of Erbil, capital of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, the process of degradation is filling the suburbs inhabited by Christians with shops for the sale of alcohol, discos, casinos and “places for massage” are increasing where in reality prostitution takes place. According to data provided by the…
Read moreBaghdad (Agenzia Fides) – Christian representatives invited to participate in the “Conference on the protection of peaceful coexistence”, held on Sunday, February 7 at the Iraqi Parliament, decided to boycott the event, to mark their distance from occasions when the calls to coexistence and harmony between different ethnic and religious…
Read moreErbil Iraq Islamic State ISIS ISIL DAESH Christian persecution Iraqi Christians fled from their homes because of Islamic State Breaking News December 21 2015 Christian refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan WAR against Islamic State ISIS ISIL DAESH Retake Sinjar Iraq Breaking News December 2015 Putin Russia Russian worldwide aggression…
Read moreCanberra – 9 February 2016 As part of its intensive campaign to promote the Assyrian cause on the national and international level, a delegation of the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) and the Assyrian Australian National Federation (AANF) attended the 2016 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) NGO forum on Human Rights that was held…
Read moreBy Hollie McKay FoxNews.com ERBIL, Iraq – They witnessed the slaughter of their families on Mount Sinjar, and then were forced by ISIS into sexual slavery. Now the “Sun Ladies” are ready to fight – for veangeance as well as survival. Some 2,000 Yazidi women who were captured in the brutal August 2014 attack on…
Read moreby John Hayward9 Feb 201610 Iraqi militia groups supported by Iran have been seizing Christian property in Baghdad, including homes, businesses, and churches, in a process described as “ethnic cleansing” by Iraqi Christian community leaders.…
Read moreNEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Knights of Columbus is asking those considering a Lenten sacrifice to give “40 Bucks for Lent” and use the hashtag #40BucksForLent to help Middle Eastern Christians and other religious minorities suffering religious persecution there.…
Read morePrague, Feb 5 (CTK) – Seventeen Iraqi refugees, including nine children, landed at the Vaclav Havel International Airport in Prague on Friday as the second of several groups of Christians from Iraq, of whom the Czech Republic plans to accept 153 this year. One of the refugees, who presents himself as George told journalists that…
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