Monthly Archives: July 2016

AMERICAN MIDDLE EAST CHRISTIANS CONGRESS (AMECC) July 14, 2016 Dr. Dass meets Hon. Senator Ted Cruz in Washington D.C. Dr. Ramsay F. Dass, president of the American Middle East Christians Congress, and Natalie Dass were on a visit to Washington, D.C. to attend a special conference (July…

By Clare Creegan THE Secretary General of the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops performed a classical piano recital to raise funds for persecuted Christians in the Middle East. His Eminence Lorenzo Cardinal Baldisseri also celebrated the Solemn Mass at the London Oratory on Sunday 10th July before the performance later in the evening in St…

James Macintyre Pope Francis delivers the Angelus prayer in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican A proportion of some 200 young Christians from all around Iraq will recite the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic before the Pope at World Youth Day (WYD) in Krakow later this month.…

Muslim men pray July 6 at the site of a July 3 suicide car bomb attack at a shopping area in Baghdad. (Credit: CNS photo/Khalid-Mousily, Reuters.) Iraqi Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako charges that if the government of his country was able to overcome its differences, ISIS militants “wouldn’t be able to commit these…

For immediate release Joseph T. Kassab | jkassab@advocatestoempower.org 248-882-1912 July 7, 2016 West Bloomfield, MI- Iraqi Christians Advocacy and Empowerment Institute (ICAE) is…

British diplomats and French leaders were among those to warn about religious conflict in post-invasion Iraq BAGHDAD : In the aftermath of the war in Iraq, the country’s Christian population has decreased from 1.4 million to 250,000. Alongside its other findings, the Chilcot Report released this morning suggests that the devastating impact on Iraqi Christians…

Iraq war ‘tragedy’ for Christians in entire Middle East Baghdad: Bombed church Christmas 2013 ‘War has sown the seeds of religious violence for a generation. The future looks bleak for Christians in Iraq, as the Shia-Sunni sectarian conflict spreads across the Middle East.’ The Iraq war has been a tragedy for Christians in Iraq and…

By Rudaw Iraqi Christians who fled Islamic State in Mosul attend prayers at Ashti camp in Erbil. Photo: AFP ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Iraq’s minority communities are under threat and on the verge of disappearing altogether says a new report from a group of human rights monitoring and advocacy organizations.…

By Shafaq Hasan As a UN report indicated several weeks ago, the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq has been decimated in what the UN has officially recognized as a genocide committed by ISIS militants. However, 13 years of war in Iraq has not left the country’s other minorities untouched. Just days after an ISIS suicide…

People gather at the scene of Sunday’s massive truck bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State group in the Karada neighborhood, Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 7, 2016. Khalid Mohammed/AP By SUSANNAH GEORGE /Associated Press…

Chiqui Guyjoco Minority Rights Group said that Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein might have been terrible, but the post-Saddam era is no way better especially with Iraqi minorities facing serious extinction. (REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily)Iraqi Christians pray as they attend a Good Friday mass…

Robert Ewan The Chaldean Catholic mission in the United Kingdom began its 30-Year anniversary celebration with their first pilgrimage to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. On July 2, 2016 more than 200 Iraqi Chaldean pilgrims were joined by the Lebanese Melkite church parishioners.They were led by Father Nadheer Dako and Father Shafiq…

Iraqi Christians light candles during a mass in the memory of the victims of a suicide bombing, that ripped through Baghdad’s busy shopping district of Karrada, on July 6, 2016. (AFP) By AFP Baghdad Thousands of Iraqis gathered Wednesday at the site of a Baghdad bombing that killed…

An Iraqi Christian man who fled the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul sits inside the Sacred Heart of Jesus Chaldean Church in Telkaif near Mosul, in Ninevah province, July 20, 2014. (photo by REUTERS) BAGHDAD — Christian citizens in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq issued complaints in…

Iraq Christians (Photo : Aziz1005/Wikimedia/CC) A Catholic Church in Baghdad, Iraq. Christians and other minorities in Iraq are facing persecution at unprecedented levels and are at the verge of extinction, according to a report released by the Minority Rights Group, as they are suppressed and abused by the Islamic State which gained prominence in the…

There won’t be any festive cheer for many in Iraq this week after a deadly suicide car bombing left more than 200 people dead in Karrada, a religiously diverse district in the capital Baghdad on Sunday. It was one of the worst atrocities on the Iraqi population claimed by Islamic State, which has also owned…

An Interview with an Iraqi Priest by Fr. Douglas Bazi and Jonathan Coppage Fr. Douglas Bazi is a Chaldean Catholic priest in his native Iraq, where he served as pastor of a parish in Baghdad during the American-led invasion. He suffered several acts of violence during the unrest that followed, including a kidnapping by Shiite…

An Iraqi Yazidi family stands in an unfinished building outside of Dohuk, Iraq, Jan. 17, 2015. The family was to receive insulated doors and windows through a Catholic Relief Services project. (CNS/Dale Gavlak) Tom Gallagher | Iraqi Kurdistan 2016 Erbil, Iraq…

By Cari DeLamielleure-Scott West Bloomfield resident Salma Ajo’s father and farmers sit near palm trees in Iraq in 1946. (Photo provided by Salma Ajo) Ajo sits with her friend Najla. (Photo provided by Salma Ajo)…

The Rev. Canon Andrew White speaks at a lunch discussion hosted by the Washington-based Institute on Religion & Democracy on December 3, 2015 in Washington D.C. The Rev. Canon Andrew White, at one time the only Anglican vicar in Iraq and known as “The Vicar of Baghdad,” has been suspended from his own charity over…