Monthly Archives: October 2017

Copyright 2017 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. (WXYZ) – A massive water main break has thousands of people in Oakland County in search of safe drinking water. Photo gallery: Crews work to repair massive water main break in Oakland Co.…

By Perry Chiaramonte, Hollie McKay, Fox News Sources in Northern Iraq tell Fox News that nearly 2,000 Christian families have fled have been forced to evacuate the village of Teleskof, an Assyrian-Chaldean-Syriac Christian town about 19 miles north of Mosul, on Tuesday after they were caught in the…

Barb Fraze, Catholic News Service Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, speaks at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington Oct. 24, the opening day of an annual three-day In Defense of Christians Summit. (CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard)…

Iraqi Christians are divided over whether their areas in northern Iraq should be a part of Kurdistan, the Iraqi central government or an entirely new autonomous area. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani An Iraqi priest holds the first Mass at the Grand Immaculate Church since its recapture…

Saad Salloum Iraqis boys visit the burned-out main church in the Christian city of Qaraqosh after Iraqi forces retook it from from Islamic State militants, Qaraqosh, Iraq, April 9, 2017. BAGHDAD — Christian activists and politicians recently have been objecting to the greater involvement of religious leaders in Iraqi political affairs.…

Published in: Asia & Americas, Iraq, Middle East, News, US Funeral ceremony is held at Church of the Virgin Mary for the victims of the explosion at Saint Peter and Saint Paul Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, Egypt on 12 December, 2016 [File photo] Researchers at the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies have…

By Leah Marieann Klett ( news@gospelherald.com ) In a dream, a 6-year-old Syrian refugee girl saw “the prophet Jesus,” and he told her a truck would soon bring provisions for her starving family. The next day, a truck from an indigenous Christian ministry arrived, bringing both physical and spiritual aid.…

Lauretta Brown The U.K. based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported Sunday that ISIS mass executed at least 128 civilians as part of reprisals in the Syrian Christian town of Qaryatain which was under ISIS control for three weeks before being retaken by the Syrian army on Saturday.…

For the first time in the history of Michigan and the United States, a bipartisan resolution recognizing and declaring October 18 every year as American Middle East Christian Day. In addition, in the history of the Michigan Legislature, two Middle East Christian church…

Louis Raphael Sako* In a letter to the President of the Republic, Sako urges “cooperation” between Iraqi leaders. The goal is to create a “modern and strong civilian” nation, capable of initiating economic, social and cultural reforms. The Iraqi army takes a large portion of Nineveh and Diyala from the Kurds. Fears for Teleskof and…

Catholic News Agency A survey of damage as seen in November 2016 at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Bakhdida, Iraq, which was occupied by the Islamic State Oct. 2014-Oct. 2016. (Credit: Jaco Klamer/ACN.) John Pontifex, the editor of a new report on worldwide Christian persecution, says that…

Sunday, October 15, 2017 – The growing Assyrian community in Arizona welcomed “molphono” Abboud Zeitoune, author of “Music Pearls of Beth-Nahrin” (2007) and “Modern Assyrian Music” (2015) at Arizona State University’s West Campus in Glendale, Arizona.…

Gary Lane What do Iraqi Kurds think of America’s silence about the battle for Kirkuk and steps taken against them by Turkey, Iran and Iraq? Watch Gary Lane’s interview with Kurdish analyst Awat Mustafa for some insights. Last month when Iraqi Kurds held a referendum on independence, they never imagined…

Source: Xinhua| |Editor: Mu Xuequan CHICAGO, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) — Refugees in southeast part of U.S. state of Michigan are contributing up to 295 million U.S. dollars to the region’s economy, a study of the Global Detroit and researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) Ford School of Public Policy shows.…

By balint szlanko, associated press KIRKUK, Iraq — Iraqi security forces and Popular Mobilization Forces patrol in Tuz Khormato, that was evacuated by Kurdish security forces, 130 miles (210 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. Two weeks after fighting together against the IslamThe Associated Press…

Residents of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on the road back home on Oct. 17. (Khalid Mohammed / Associated Press) Associated Press Kurdish forces pulled out of disputed areas across northern and eastern Iraq on Tuesday, a day after handing the northern city of Kirkuk over to federal forces amid a…

Reuters Kitco News BAGHDAD, Oct 17 (Reuters) – An Iraqi Yazidi group affiliated with a Shi’ite-led armed faction took control on Tuesday of Sinjar, said residents of the northwestern city that is claimed by both Kurdish and central Iraqi authorities.…

by Erika Solomon in Erbil and David Sheppard in London Iraqi forces seized control of the disputed city of Kirkuk on Monday as Kurdish forces appeared to melt away, escalating a crisis triggered by last month’s independence referendum in the autonomous Kurdistan region. Elite Iraqi counter-terrorism forces moved into the provincial government headquarters…

By John Pontifex A PRIEST caring for persecuted Christians in northern Iraq has called on people to pray for peace in northern Iraq amid fears that a return to full-scale war could threaten the survival of one of the world’s oldest Church communities. Father Salar Kajo, who cares for Christians in towns and villages in…

By Anugrah Kumar , Christian Post Contributor (PHOTO: REUTERS/AHMED JADALLAH)An Iraqi priest prepares for Sunday mass at the damaged Grand Immaculate Church in Qaraqosh, near Mosul, Iraq on Oct. 30, 2016 after it was recaptured from ISIS.…