Monthly Archives: May 2016

by Bradley Eli, M.Div., MA.Th. • ChurchMilitant.com • Pope Francis replaces dissident bishop in San Diego who sheltered disobedient clerics SAN DIEGO (ChurchMilitant.com) – The Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad is being aided by Pope Francis in his ongoing attempts to recover clerics and religious who fled Iraq in 2013 without permission.…

West Bloomfield resident recognized as Humanitarian of the Year for efforts in Flint water crisis By Alex Tekip Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha speaks to the crowd at the Chaldean-American Chamber of Commerce’s awards dinner after being honored as the organization’s Humanitarian of the Year. (Photo by Donna Agusti)…

Fr. Douglas Bazi pleads for help in saving the Christians in Iraq by Elisa Cipollone For years he kept the story of his capture to himself — telling the details to almost no one. Now, however, Fr. Douglas Bazi, a priest from Erbil, Iraq, who was kidnapped and…

Christian Deguit The Turkish government has seized all its last remaining Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Churches in accordance with the expropriation order issued last month. The expropriation, according to the government, aims to rebuild and restore the historical center of Diyarbakir, the largest city in southeastern Turkey.…

In his message “To the priests, monks, nuns, deacons, daughters and sons of St Peter the Apostle Chaldean Diocese”, Mar Raphael Louis Sako spoke about the change in leadership in US dioceses. BAGHDAD: In his message “To the priests, monks, nuns, deacons, daughters and sons…

ATTACK CHURCH IRAQ By Dale Gavlak Catholic News Service CNS photo/Khalil Al Anei, EPA An Iraqi man inspects the damage in 2011 at a Catholic church after attacks in Kirkuk. Despite predictions that Christianity could be wiped out of his war-torn homeland within…

by CNA Daily News Phoenix, Ariz., May 9, 2016 / 03:48 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has named a new bishop of a Phoenix-based Eastern Catholic eparchy: Bishop John Stephen Pazak, C.Ss.R. Bishop Pazak, 69, will head the Holy Protection of Mary Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix, according to a May 7 announcement.…

By Hollie McKay Published May 09, 2016 FoxNews.com Chilling new insight into genocide being carried out by ISIS Watch the latest video at <a href=”http://video.foxnews.com”>video.foxnews.com</a> Even as religious minorities face genocide at the hands of Muslim extremists in Iraq,…

Assyrian Universal Alliance) Sydney — Over 500 people descended on Martin Place in a public demonstration organised by the Assyrian Council of Australia. The demonstrators demanded an end to Kurdish aggression in the occupied Assyrian homeland as well as the brutal atrocities currently taking place against the Assyrian Christians in Iraq and Syria as a…

Hope For Iraqi ChristiansKnights of Columbus Mar Toma Nonprofit, Knights of Columbus Host Fundraiser to Support Victims of Genocide By Reema Makani Boccia May 7, 2016 (El Cajon) — Hope for Iraqi Christians, a nonprofit organization supporting…

By Paul Jeffrey IRBIL, Iraq (CNS) — As heavy fighting continues across the Ninevah Plain, some Christians displaced by the Islamic State group have given up the dream of returning home and joined the stream of refugees leaving the war-torn country. Others remain here in Iraqi Kurdistan, clinging to the hope that they can someday…

By Doug Bandow A Yazidi girl, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province August 13, 2014. The author writes that rape is widespread in ISIS occupied areas, with more than “1,500 Yazidi and Christian girls” taken as sex slaves. As in ancient times,…

By Eric Scheiner | A few days after addressing the United Nations in New York about the genocide of Christians in Iraq, a priest from Baghdad brought his message to Sacramento, California. KTXL reports, Father Douglas Bazi addressed an overflowing crowd Wednesday night…

Washington, D.C. – As part of an official trip to the Middle East this week, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) today met with the Archbishop of Erbil, Iraq, Bashar Matti Warda, and the Archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Mosul, Nicodemus Sharaf, to discuss the plight of the Christian community in Iraq and Syria…

by Dennis Shanahan, ORANGEVALE — A few days after addressing the United Nations in New York about the genocide of Christians in Iraq, a priest from Baghdad brought his message to Sacramento. Father Douglas Bazi addressed an overflowing crowd Wednesday night at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chaldean Catholic Church in Orangevale, a visit sponsored…

bazi Father Douglas Bazi is a Chaldean Catholic priest in Erbil, Kurdish northern Iraq, and runs a Christian refugee camp. In 2006, he was captured and tortured for nine days by the extremist group Al Qaeda but after his recovery, he continues to minister to the Christian population despite the real threats priests face. (Photo…

Erika Pilones Christians in Iraq and Syria face the risk of extinction due to actions of genocide suffered from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Many Christian churches in Syria and Iraq are reportedly being destroyed by the extreme Islamic group. Millions of their members are forced to flee their hometowns as refugees,…

Members of the French nongovernmental organization Chredo gather for a conference, Jan. 23, 2016. (photo by Chredo) Members of a European delegation to the Middle East say they were surprised by what they heard from Christians there: support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and criticism of European policies affecting them.…

Sydney – 5 May 2016 On the evening of Wednesday May 4, the Parliament of New South Wales, Australia hosted an important Evening Seminar entitled ‘The Current Genocide Perpetrated by ISIS against Assyrians and Other Christian Minorities in Iraq & Syria’.…

by Catholic News Service Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako speaks to the media (CNS photo/ Alaa Al-Marjani, Reuters) Thousands of families, most of whom are Christian, have been displaced by ISIS offensives…