Monthly Archives: May 2017

By Rudaw A displaced Christian family in a refugee camp. Photo: Rudaw video ERBIL, Kurdistan Region— Head of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains have called for the establishment of a safe haven under international protection for the country’s increasingly persecuted Christians.…

A damaged statue of the Virgin Mary in a church in Qaraqosh, east of Mosul, Iraq (Reuters photo: Goran Tomasevic) Share article on Facebook share Tweet article tweet Plus one article on Google Plus +1 Print Article Adjust font size AA by Tina Ramirez May 12, 2017 4:55 PM American Christians should urge him to…

Monday 8 May in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw was held the conference „The role of Kurds in the Middle-East” organized by Office of the Representative of Kurdistan Regional Government to Poland in cooperation with private university “Collegium Civitas”. The event brought together Polish and Kurdish experts…

© Sputnik/ Valery Melnikov Middle East In a meeting with US Vice President on Thursday, Russian Metropolitan Hilarion discussed the hardships of Christians in the Middle East, stressing that Russia is the only party thaey can rely on as of now.…

‘Protecting and promoting religious liberty is a foreign policy priority,’ declared Vice President Pence at faith summit by Fr. Benedict Kiely | On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence gave perhaps the most strongly worded and overt defense of persecuted Christians in some time. He joined the Reverend Franklin…

By Peter Jesserer Smith Banner 20170406t0933 8927 cns pope syria russia A child receives treatment inside a field hospital in Idlib, Syria, after an April 4 chemical attack. Pope Francis strongly condemned the attack, which left more than 70 people, including at least 10 children, dead. (CNS)…

From left, Gorgis “Mr. George,” Samira, Liza, Lilya and Hans Matani are Assyrian immigrants from Iraq seeking asylum in the United States. The federal government has denied their request so the family faces deportation. Photo by: Courtesy photo Slim Smith In 2014, as ISIS fighters moved dangerously near their small Iraqi village 20 miles…

ACN News on 10/5/2017, 10:43 am Nineveh Plains (Iraq): ACN begins the reconstruction with the “Olive Tree Ceremony” • On Monday morning 8th May the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need consecrated three building sites in the villages of Bartella, Karemlash and Baghdeda (Qaraqosh) for the reconstruction of the first 105 houses belonging…

Carol Glatz CATHOLIC_NEWS_SERVICE A Christan woman cradles her sleeping child during Easter Mass in Qaraqosh, Iraq, Sunday, April 16 2017. The town has been gutted by Islamic State militants. (Credit: AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo.) Nine seminarians from the United States decided to run toward the opposite sides of…

Carol Glatz CATHOLIC_NEWS_SERVICE U.S. seminarians run across Italy to help displaced families in Iraq A Christan woman cradles her sleeping child during Easter Mass in Qaraqosh, Iraq, Sunday, April 16 2017. The town has been gutted by Islamic State militants. (Credit: AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo.)…

George Carey FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY The remains of destroyed church are seen in the town of Qaraqosh, south of Mosul, Iraq Credit: MARKO DJURICA/REUTERS I recently saw images of the hauntingly empty Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, near Mosul,…

The liberation of Mosul will still leave a region mired in complex tensions by: Erika Solomon in Nineveh province Before Isis militants assaulted his northern Iraqi village in 2014, an old friend called Abu…

By John Newton AS the Church celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Fatima apparitions – an international Catholic charity dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need – which was founded in 1947 to provide…

I write on human rights and persecution of minorities around the world Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. In November 2016, I visited some of the then recently liberated areas on Ninevah Plains: Quaragosh, Karamless and Bartallah, towns that Daesh took over in August…

By Tola Mbakwe Barnabus Fund, a relief agency which supports the persecuted church throughout the world, urged politicians to adopt policies to prevent genocide among persecuted Christians. The manifesto was sent to each political party contesting the upcoming June 8th…

By Perry Chiaramonte Fox News Qaraqosh, Iraq saw part of the destruction made by ISIS of the Christian villages in the Nineveh Plain. (Copyright: Aid to the Church in Need) The long road home for the thousands of Iraqi Christians displaced by ISIS is set to…

by ACN News on 5/5/2017, 12:57 pm • On Monday 8th May in the villages of Bartella, Karamless and Qaraqosh an “Olive Tree Ceremony” will mark the beginning of rebuilding work on the first 100 homes of the Christian refugee families, in a programme sponsored by the Catholic charity Aid to the…

By John Newton and Daniele Piccini AN “Olive Tree Ceremony” in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains will mark the beginning of the rebuilding of homes belonging to Christian families who fled when extremist group Daesh (ISIS) seized their villages. The ceremony set to be held on Monday (8th May) in the villages of Bartella, Karamlesh…

As many as 1.5 million Christians, or close to 75 percent of all followers of Christ in Iraq, have fled the country since 2003, according to an Iraqi Christian lawmaker. (Photo: Reuters/Khalid al Mousily)A Christian woman inspects a home in the town of Bartella east of Mosul, Iraq, after it was liberated from Islamic State…

Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aprem II, Primate of the Syriac Orthodox Church, has forgiven four of the six Metropolitan Bishops of his Church who in February had accused him of “betrayal of faith”. The patriarchal act, in a statement…