Monthly Archives: May 2016

Nuri Kino Independent investigative multi-award-winning reporter, filmmaker, author, Middle East and human rights analyst “I’m trying to call you, pick up the phone. It’s about a Christian family who is being harassed in a refugee camp. Do you know of anybody that I can contact regarding a…

Yesterday evening the House of Representatives passed two amendments to the F.Y. 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to support Iraqi minorities including Christians. Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) On May 19, 2016, IDC President Toufic Baaklini made the following statement:…

By Hollie McKay DeKelaita, shown here in his homeland of Iraq, claims he ran afoul of the Departmennt of Justice when he complained about the treatment of Christian asylum seekers. In the Iraqi-American Christian community, he is revered as an activist who delivered thousands from persecution at the hands of Muslim extremists, but in the…

Lorraine Caballero (Reuters/Ahmed Saad)Iraqi security forces wait for vehicles travelling to Mosul to fight against militants of Islamic State at an Iraqi army base in Camp Taji in Baghdad, February 21, 2016. The United States could offer financial support to Christian militias fighting the Islamic…

© AP Photo/ Nader Daoud Being resettled in Slovakia under the government program a group of Iraqi Christian refugees finally returned home, local media reported Wednesday. PRAGUE (Sputnik) — A group of Iraqi Christian refugees, resettled in Slovakia under the government program, returned home, local media reported Wednesday.…

An attack yesterday on a factory killed 14 people, injuring another 20. 15 more victims in a series of attacks in the capital and surrounding areas. The Chaldean Patriarchate condemns attacks, which have become “a daily constant”. The appeal to political and religious leaders for the promotion of a “culture of tolerance, love and peace.”…

Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako has issued a new plea for peace after a series of terror attacks in the Baghdad area that claimed 30 lives. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a gas plant north of the city, in which at least 14 people died and 20 were wounded. Other…

By Robert Marchant Published 12:00 am, Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Tom Gallagher sits in his home in Riverside. Photo: Kyle Michael King / / Stamford Advocate freelance Photo: Kyle Michael King / Tom Gallagher sits in his home in Riverside.…

Father Martin Hermis Dawood leads prayers at the Virgin Mary Camp in Baghdad every Saturday Credit: Heathcliff O’Malley for the Telegraph Ben Farmer, Baghdad When members of Father Martin Hermis Dawood’s congregation used to ask guidance about fleeing Iraq, his advice was to be strong.…

carey-lodge Carey Lodge Christian Today Journalist Reuters Displaced Yazidi children who fled Sinjar pose for photographer at a refugee camp on the outskirt of Duhok province. Mirza Haj Mirza Qirani, chieftain of one of the Sinjar tribes, remembers the night Islamic…

CB Condez A Chaldean priest, who runs a displacement center in Ainkawa in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, has blamed the United States government for not exerting enough effort to quash the Islamic State terror group. ((Photo: Reuters/Ari Jala))Displaced families from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the…

The Obama Administration has several options to choose from to help protect Middle East Christians JOHN BURGER The United States—and the international community—has several options to help Christians in Iraq and Syria, now that the US has declared that they are victims of a…

CB Condez A Chaldean priest, who runs a displacement center in Ainkawa in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, has blamed the United States government for not exerting enough effort to quash the Islamic State terror group. ((Photo: Reuters/Ari Jala))Displaced families from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the…

May 13, 2016 Dr. Ramsay Dass M.D, President of the American Middle east Christians Congress (AMECC) and the AMECC board of directors hosted H.E. Archbishop Avag Asatourian, Primate of The Armenian Church in Iraq and also secretary general for the Iraqi Christian Churches Council on Monday and Tuesday May 9th and May 10th, 2016 in…

Crisis so severe it has ‘reached the breaking point’ WASHINGTON – The chief of the Kirkuk governorate in Iraq has told Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin that the nation isn’t likely to hang together in the end – no matter what happens. Najmaldin Karim, in fact, is calling for the eventual partition of Iraq, partly because…

Chiqui Guyjoco Reuters/Wissm Al-Okili)People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad’s mainly Shi’ite district of Sadr City, Iraq, May 11, 2016 Father Douglas al-Bazi, a Chaldean priest who runs a church and displacement center in Ainkawa, Iraq, has visited the U.S. this week to raise awareness about the plight of…

ISIS outdid itself in its barbarism. Yochanan Visser The Islamic State continues to commit unspeakable, horrific crimes against humanity and have recently seemed to step up their brutal execution campaign against non-Muslims, fellow Muslims, and even their own members.…

by BARBARA HOLLINGSWORTH A Chaldean Catholic priest who was kidnapped and tortured by Islamic militants a decade ago in Iraq said Tuesday in Washington that while the American invasion of his country in 2003 was a “big mistake,” President Obama’s decision to withdraw American troops in 2011 was “a bigger mistake.”…

In a recent talk on the challenges facing the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako criticized “bureaucratic interference” from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Eastern Churches. The patriarch was particularly critical of the Congregation’s decision to overturn his…

By Barbara Hollingsworth At a March 11, 2016 press conference at the National Press Club, Fr. Douglas Bazi holds up the bloody shirt he wore during his nine-day confinement after he was kidnapped by Muslim militants in Iraq in 2006. (YouTube) (CNSNews.com) – A Chaldean Catholic priest who was kidnapped and tortured by…