Monthly Archives: November 2017

Inés San Martín VATICAN CORRESPONDENT Luxury sports car maker Lamborghini has presented Pope Francis with a brand-new, special edition Huracan that will be auctioned off with the proceeds donated to charity. (Credit: L’Osservatore Romano.)…

By Marta Petrosillo (in Rome) A BRAND-NEW, special edition Lamborghini Huracan sports car presented to Pope Francis will be auctioned off and the proceeds donated to charity. Part of the funds raised from the Sotheby’s auction will go to Catholic charity Aid to…

The situation of Christians “is worse than the arrival of ISIS” because they are “caught up in this clash between Arabs and Kurds, Shiites and Sunni,” which “hinders” the return of refugees to Mosul and the Nineveh plain, and “there is no longer any help”.…

ASSYRIAN UNIVERSAL ALLIANCE AUSTRALIA CHAPTER Member, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) PRESS RELEASE Sydney – 15 November 2017 Delegation of the Assyrian Universal Alliance in Australia meets with the Lebanese…

By Martin Patriquin. There are about 400,000 Yazidis living in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. Their religion — a conflation of Christianity and Islam — deifies Melek Taus (also known as the ‘Peacock Angel’). This fact puts them at odds with the roughly eight million mostly…

Amed Khan By David A. Patten  Amed Khan, an investor and global philanthropist currently engaged in rebuilding communities destroyed by ISIS, says he’ll “believe it when I see it” regarding the Trump administration’s plan to provide aid directly to Iraq’s persecuted religious Christians.…

Official pledges to ramp up fight against genocide WASHINGTON – United Nations “refugee” programs have focused on Muslims in the Middle East for years, even though the populations of Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities in the region have been under siege.…

ISLAMIC extremists have launched attacks on Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in what could be a worrying campaign to create a new caliphate in Africa. By Joey Millar Islamic terroristsGETTY Islamic terrorists are attempting to create a caliphate in DR Congo…

Tom Perry, Ellen Francis, John Irish BEIRUT/PARIS (Reuters) – Hezbollah’s leader said on Friday that Saudi Arabia had declared war on Lebanon and his Iran-backed group, accusing Riyadh of detaining Saad al-Hariri and forcing him to resign as Lebanon’s prime minister to destabilize the country.…

By Bob Anderson Correspondent Why limit Thanksgiving to just one day? I’m getting a jump start by reflecting on what I am especially grateful for this year. I am grateful for the two young, beautiful, and courageous Syrian families who have resettled in lower Bucks County. The first family — Moustafa and Amal and their…

DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Cuneiform tablet containing details about infertility The first diagnosis to determine infertility was made 4,000 years ago, an ancient Assyrian clay tablet discovered by Turkish researchers in central Kayseri province revealed Thursday.…

By Rudaw 19 hours ago Then Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (R) greetsKurdistan’s Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani before their meeting on March 2, 2015 at the Palazzo Chigi in Rome. File photo: Getty Images/ Tiziana Fabi ROME, Italy – A number of Italian senators and members of parliament have voiced…

BY Agencies A top Catholic cleric from Iraq says his country has “lost all confidence” despite the rout of the Islamic State group, and needs an economic and cultural “Marshall Plan”. Mirkis, the Chaldean archbishop of the northern diocese of Kirkuk, said the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 had “opened a Pandora’s box, and…

Rebuilding of Iraq by Marshall Plan style aid necessary for country’s confidence in future following destabilisation by American intervention says Mirkis. Middle East Online “The only thing that will succeed is a rebirth arising from the grassroots”…

By Emilie Ng Benjamin Blanchard Rebuilding Chritian cities: Benjamin Blanchard will give a series of talks in Brisbane, New South Wales and Victoria between November 26 and December 10. CHRISTIANS rebuilding their homes in devastated Qaraqosh could soon receive…

For the first time since 1970, a Christian educational institute is established in south Iraq. The opening is scheduled for the next school year. It will have Christian, Muslim, and Mandaean teachers. Msgr. Habib: Proclaiming God through “the education of new generations”. Opening the doors of hope, creating employment for adults, and…

PanARMENIAN.Net – The half-destroyed Armenian church of St Thomas in the village of Altinsac in Turkey’s Van province is now being used as a stable, Ermenihaber.am reports. Relics of the Apostle St. Thomas were buried in the church, built in the 10th-11th centuries not far from Lake Van.…

by Our Correspo… Melbourne: Syriac Orthodox Church patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II has reached Melbourne as part of his Australian tour. The patriarch will visit the new St George Jacobite Syriac Orthodox……

By Beth Griffin • Catholic News Service • UNITED NATIONS (CNS) — The day she succeeded in her fourth attempt to escape six months of daily rape and humiliation by her Islamic State captors, Iraqi teen Ekhlas Khudur Bajoo made a vow.…

By Leah Marieann Klett ( news@gospelherald.com ) The former bride of ISIS’s highest-ranking American member opened up about leaving her jihadist husband and joining a Christian church in an eye-opening interview with The Atlantic. Tania Georgelas, 33 (pictured), the British-born jihadi bride said she became radicalized…