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Kurdish Regional Government official says Iraqi army hasn’t performed as well as expected in campaign to retake Mosul from Daesh By Idris Okuducu and Hemn Baban ERBIL, Iraq The Iraqi army has not performed as well as expected in its ongoing campaign to…
Read moreruth-gledhill Ruth Gledhill Christian Today Contributing Editor Chaldean Patriarchate of Babylon Bishops in Iraq have issued a formal statement praising the Iraqi army, Kurdish and tribal forces in freeing many towns and cities from the ravages of Islamic State.…
Read moreThe Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) together with the Assyrian Australian National Federation (AANF) hosted one of the most successful Assyrian New Year Festivals in the last decade. Thousands of people were in attendance at Fairfield showground to celebrate the Assyrian culture. The Festival started at 10:00 am and the music and dancing continued till the…
Read moreJune will be second anniversary of occupation of Iraq’s second-largest city Shawn Neal John Burger Landing support Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 22, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit await a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter for a helicopter supply transfer during a U.S.-French bilateral exercise. The 22nd MEU is deployed with the…
Read moreA view shows the damage in the town of al-Qaryatain, Syria, after forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad recaptured it in this picture provided by SANA on April 3, 2016. © SANA / Reuters After several days of heavy assault fighting, Syrian government troops and local militia…
Read moreOn April 4th and 5th, 2016, His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II presided over the regular meeting of the General Secretariat of the Holy Synod, held at the Patriarchal Residence in Mor Jacob Baradeus Monastery in Atchaneh, Bikfaya – Lebanon. After the opening prayer, His Holiness discussed with their Eminences the Archbishops,…
Read morePrague, April 4 (CTK) – Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec (Social Democrats, CSSD) will want his German counterpart to explain to him why the 25 Christian refugees from Iraq who left the Czech Republic were allowed to stay in Germany, Chovanec told Czech Television (CT) on Monday.…
Read moreBy ALBERT AJI QARYATAIN, Syria (AP) — Syrian troops fired their guns in celebration amid smoldering buildings inside the town of Qaryatain on Monday, hours after recapturing it from retreating Islamic State militants who had abducted and terrorized dozens of its Christian residents.…
Read more© David W Cerny / Reuters Czech authorities are planning to deport a group of Christian refugees back to Iraq within a week, after they “abused the good will” of the republic, which provided them asylum, by attempting to cross the border into Germany. Trends EU refugee & migrant influx…
Read moreChristian Deguit Pope Francis sends personal and financial support to Christians in Iraq. Pope Francis recently ordered a relief delegation that was heading to Iraqi Kurdistan to also provide his personal and financial support to the persecuted Christians in the region.…
Read moreKim Russell (WXYZ) – They are kids who escaped war, genocide, and ISIS. Now, they are building a new life with the help of a charter school in Madison Heights. U.S. Congressman Sander Levin visited Keys Grace Academy to visit with the students on Friday.…
Read moreSiranush Ghazanchyan Armenian Preisdent Serzh Sargsyan has congratulated the Assyrian community on New Year, President’s Press Office reports. The message reads: “I cordially congratulate the Assyrians of Armenia on the occasion of Assyrian New Year – Kha b’Nisan.…
Read moreOnly around 43 Christian families now remain in the IS stronghold The flag of the Islamic State flutters on the “dome” of the Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs in Raqqa (AFP) MEE staff’s picture Islamic State (IS) has forbidden Christians from leaving its stronghold of Raqqa “under any circumstances”, according to activists in the…
Read moreWhile the U.S. State Department has issued a warning against travel in Iraq for American citizens, Dominican Sister Durstyne Farnan felt compelled to take on the danger and travel to the country in 2005, in order to demonstrate solidarity with the Iraqi Dominican nuns fleeing religious persecution. Farnan, along with Sister Arlene Flaherty,…
Read moreA Report from ACERO Headquarters – England, United Kingdom The Diocese of the Assyrian Church of the East in Syria has directly reported that Maryam David Talya, an ?Assyrian? ??Christian? hostage held in al-Hassaka, Syria has been released on 27 March 2016 and will arrive in the town of Tel Tamar soon.…
Read morePersecution of Middle East Christians to Be Addressed by Baylor University Panel Panelists will be Baylor President Ken Starr, former Congressman Frank Wolf, World Refugee Care founder Jalil Dawood and Cole Richards of The Voice of the Martyrs Newswise — As the global persecution of Christians continues, Baylor University…
Read moreSam Lane On Thursday, futurist architect Zaha Hadid died at the age of 65. Hadid contracted bronchitis earlier during the week and suffered a sudden heart attack while being treated in the hospital. Hadid was widely…
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