Monthly Archives: April 2017

By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter Evangelist Franklin Graham spent his Easter weekend touring churches and towns left desecrated and destroyed by the Islamic State terrorist organization in Northern Iraq and claimed that only about seven families remain in what used to be the largest Christian town in Iraq.…

Posted by ACN News ACN News: Tuesday, 18th April 2017 – SYRIA The people in Aleppo are finally looking forward to Easter again By Eva-Maria Kolmann The last few Easters were sad ones for the people of Aleppo. Good Friday was ever…

World | Reuters Tel Esqof, didn’t sustain same amount of damage as other Christian towns overrun by the ISIS. TEL ESQOF: Hundreds of Iraqi Christians gathered on Sunday in a church damaged by ISIS north of Mosul, celebrating Easter there for the first time since 2014.…

A priest leads the Easter Mass in Mar Gewargis (St George) Chaldean Catholic church, which was damaged by Islamic State militants, in the town of Tel Esqof, Iraq, April 16, 2017. REUTERS/Marko Djurica By Maher Chmaytelli | TEL ESQOF, Iraq Hundreds of Iraqi Christians gathered on Sunday in a church damaged by Islamic State…

Susmita Pathak Mishra Christians all over the world are celebrating Easter Sunday on April 16, 2017. The day marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ every year. Easter is important as it signifies the triumph of justice, love, and peace, which constituted the main teachings of the messenger of God.…

From the church bombings in Egypt to the restrictions on movement in Palestine to an exodus from Iraq, Christians of most Middle Eastern countries are at serious risk. By James J. Zogby Orthodox Christians participate in a Holy Fire ceremony at the Church of the Nativity in…

© REUTERS/ Omar Sanadiki Middle East Hundreds of Christians came to the Good Friday’s service in St. Elijah Cathedral in Aleppo to celebrate the beginning of Easter. While the US continues to accuse Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of establishing a…

Rev Andrew White Syrian Christian girls attend a Good Friday mass at the Syriac church of the Holy Virgin in the northeastern city of Qamishli, on April 14, 2017, during Easter celebrations Credit: Delil Souleiman/AFP Today there is intense questioning about whether Christianity can even survive in this…

Damascus, Apr 16 (Prensa Latina) Christian denominations in Syria have celebrated Easter Sunday with prayers and masses in churches and places of worship, in which they called for unity to confront terrorism and achieve peace. In the Lady of Dormition Cathedral in Damascus, Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of…

By World Tribune on April 16, 2017 Christians in the town of Tel Esqof celebrated Easter on April 16 for the first time since Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the terror group’s “caliphate” from a mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014.…

Christians in Karachi celebrate Easter, the day Jesus was resurrected. The Pakistani police foiled a plan to bomb a Easter celebration on Saturday. AP/PTI…

By Tina Ramirez, opinion contributor – As many Americans celebrate Easter, nearly 300 Iraqi Christian refugees are awaiting deportation back to a country most of them have never known. Nahidh Shaou, a U.S. Army veteran who served in Korea, is one example of why giving them a second chance is the right thing to do.…

Christians have long been an embattled minority in Egypt, 10% of the overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim population of more than 92 million. Molly Hennessy-FiskeMolly Hennessy-FiskeContact Reporter On the eve of Christianity’s holiest day, Coptic Christian families filed past armed…

Asharq Al-Awsat A wall damaged by bullets fired by ISIS militants is seen inside a church yard in the town of Qaraqosh, south of Mosul, Iraq, April 12, 2017. REUTERS/Marko Djurica With ISIS expelled, Iraqi Christians are trickling back to the ransacked town of Qaraqosh, beset by anxiety for their security and yet hopeful they…

Destruction: The church courtyard became a shooting range Ruaidhri Giblin A burned-out church in northern Iraq will celebrate Easter mass for the first time in three years today. The Syriac Catholic Church of Qaraqosh, 20 miles from the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, is still seared by attempts to blow it up.…

by Penny Starr The head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, Iraq released his Easter message to the people of Iraq this week, telling them not to let the spirit of Easter be dimmed, despite the suffering they face daily from persecution and terrorism, Vatican radio reported.…

James Zogby, Contributor President, Arab American Institute; Author, “Arab Voices” This year there will no Easter celebrations for Coptic Christians in Upper Egypt. Out of concern for their security and out of respect for the 45 Christians who were victims of two horrific suicide bombing attacks on Palm Sunday, their bishop declared that Easter…

By Suzette Gutierrez-Cachila The former Archbishop of Canterbury accused the government of being biased against Christian refugees from Syria. He said Christians, who are being “disproportionately persecuted” in the Middle East, should be given priority by the government, but this is not happening.…

Hundreds of people attended the Syrian Orthodox Church of Our Lady of the Belt in the Old City of Hundreds of people celebrate Good Friday in Homs with a procession at night through the damaged neighborhood of Bustan Al Dewan. (Liliana Nieto del Rio / For The Times) Patrick J. McDonnellContact Reporter…

Prospects of Christianity surviving in its birthplace, the Middle East, appear as grim this Holy Week as they have at any time in the last two millennia. Persecution of the world’s largest religion has intensified, especially in Muslim-dominated countries. Jihadists appear to have repeatedly carried out one of their oft-…