Monthly Archives: February 2017

Sessions urged to undo Obama-DOJ’s Muslim ‘discrimination’ suit against U.S. city Leo Hohmann is a news editor for WND. He has been a reporter and editor at several suburban newspapers in the Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, areas and also served as managing editor of Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh, North Carolina. His…

We are at the church of St. Tecla in Beirut, Lebanon. Today is not a day of obligation, but the church is still full, mainly with refugees from Iraq; people who have lost everything except their faith. There are families similar to Milad’s, who suffers from a shortage of food for her three…

Whether medieval Christians saw India as a symbol of evil or as the home of saints, the Subcontinent remained a source of fascination. Christianity has long been a part of India’s religious diversity. Syrian Christians claim that Thomas, one of the original 12 disciples of Jesus, established their community almost 2,000 years ago. Medieval Christians…

By Premier Journalist World Vision has warned that emergency aid will be needed to assist civilians trapped inside western Mosul. The charity fears that 650,000 civilians will be caught up in the fighting. An offensive by Iraqi forces, backed by the US, is underway to take back the western…

Andrew Walther When I visited Erbil, Iraq, in December with a congressional delegation determined to find out why Christians had often been excluded from U.S. aid programs, Archbishop Nicodemus Daoud of Mosul told us that Americans generally care more about endangered frogs than about endangered Christian communities.…

Ava Benny-Morrison Oleen Merza, the sister of Oliver Merza, who was charged after police raids. Photo: Nick Moir Alina Antal, 29, was arrested in Cabramatta in Sydney’s west on Wednesday. Photo: Facebook Ms Antal is accused of being involved in a cannabis supply syndicate. Photo: Facebook…

A militia leader in Iraq who has called for revenge against the Islamic State has no right to “make such statements involving Christians” and “does not represent them in any way,” the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate has announced. The Baghdad patriarchate quickly issued that statement after a militia leader who claims…

World Watch Monitor Dozens of Iraqi Christians in Lebanon protested in central Beirut this week, demanding the UN to grant them quicker resettlement abroad. Between 150 and 200 demonstrators gathered outside a UN building, carrying placards…

By Samuel Smith Any U.S. policy that would prioritize the resettlement of Christian refugees from Iraq and Syria might help the Islamic State accomplish its goal of pushing historic Christian communities out of their ancient homelands in the Middle East, an Arab Christian leader has warned.…

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has welcomed the announcement of nearly $17m in extra funding for its work by the Government of Japan. The funding will allow UNHCR to expand the provision of emergency items, shelter and cash assistance to Iraqi families displaced from Mosul conflict and to Syrian refugees.…

Associated Press Iraqi Christian Samer Younan who lives in Lebanon holds a cross during a sit-in, in front of the United Nations Headquarters demanding speeding up their immigration cases in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. Thousands of Christians from Iraq and Syria have fled violence in their country and sought refuge in Lebanon, a…

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFEB. BEIRUT — Dozens of Iraqi Christians have marched outside the U.N. regional headquarters in Beirut, demanding the speeding up of their resettlement process. Thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled the fighting in their country to seek refuge in…

Large parts of the once thriving Christian community of Quaraqosh in Northern Iraq have been left in ruins. The church in the town, which lies near Mosul, was destroyed by ISIL. Now liberated from the extremists, those Christians who have returned, are struggling to deal with the new reality.…

By The Associated Press BEIRUT — Dozens of Iraqi Christians have marched outside the U.N. regional headquarters in Beirut, demanding the speeding up of their resettlement process. Thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled the fighting in their country to seek refuge in…

Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungarian police say they have finished their investigation of a trove of Persian, Sumerian and Assyrian antiquities found last year in a truck. Police in Bacs-Kiskun County said Wednesday that bronze objects from as early as 900…

Hannah Brockhaus CATHOLIC_NEWS_AGENCY A priest gives Communion to a woman during a Mass for Iraqi Christian refugees at Our Lady of Peace Center on the outskirts of the Jordanian capital, Amman. (Credit: CNS/Dale Gavlak.) Jerusalem Bishop William Shomali, newly appointed to the Latin Patriarchate of Jordan,…

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 2017 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)-NGO forum on Human Rights that was held on…

By Josh Tng An Iraqi priest is preparing for his new appointment supporting immigrants and building a community in the Archdiocese of Vancouver. Father Sabah Kamora replaced Father Sarmed Biloues as pastor for Sts. Peter & Paul…

Barnabas Fund claims the rejection of 80 per cent of Christian refugee visas Organisation says the majority of 300 visas were granted to Sunni Muslims They asked Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to investigate the allocations Mr Dutton’s office said they had accepted more than 4000 from Syria and Iraq…

The Trump administration has said the ban would help prevent terrorism but opponents assailed it as unconstitutional. By Reuters Amira al-Qassab and her family flitted from one Iraqi city to another fleeing Islamic State, then waited three years in Beirut until they were cleared to move to the United States.…