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People gather at the destroyed tomb of the Prophet Jonah (Nabi Younes) in the eastern side of Mosul, Iraq March 9, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem Archaeologists discovered an ancient palace and 2,700-year-old inscriptions about a biblical Assyrian king in tunnels the Islamic State dug under Jonah’s tomb.…
Read moreZelda Caldwell ARIS MESSINIS / AFP Incredible treasures from a buried palace see the light of day, thanks to tunnels dug by ISIS While ISIS was responsible for destroying and selling countless priceless artifacts during their occupation of Iraq, their acts of plunder have led to an important discovery…
Read moreBy Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor This 2,700-year-old seal impression contains the Hebrew name for “Isaiah” and may refer to the biblical prophet who lived at the same time. Credit: Ouria Tadmor/copyright Eilat Mazar…
Read more“Without an end to this persecution and violence, there is no future for religious pluralism in Iraq or anywhere else in the Middle East for that matter,” said Iraqi Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil in a speech at Georgetown University on Feb. 15. By Courtney Grogan…
Read moreChaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, talks about religious pluralism at Georgetown University in Washington Feb. 15. CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – If Christians in the Middle East are going to be “honest” with their…
Read moreQARAQOSH, Iraq – If home is where the heart is, what happens when you are forced to leave your home, then return to find it destroyed? That is what has happened to Christians under siege in Iraq returning to their homes in Qaraqosh on the Plains of Nineveh in the aftermath of the conflict with…
Read moreThe School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester in England has invited researchers in Iranian studies to submit papers for a two-day conference on ‘Modern Iranian Art and Architecture in the Shadow of the Classical Persian Past.’ Sponsored by the British Institute of Persian Studies, the conference is slated for May…
Read moreLorraine Caballero Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need will shell out 3.6 million British pounds to help 2,000 Christian refugees returning to Iraq’s Nineveh Plains rebuild their homes after the Islamic State was defeated in the region. (REUTERS / Muhammad Hamed)Workers remove rubble during the rebuilding of a…
Read moreBy John Newton and Murcadha O Flaherty CHRISTIANS forced out of their ancestral lands in northern Iraq are rejoicing after a leading Catholic charity announced an urgent injection of aid to rebuild an extra 2,000 homes. The US$5 million (£3.6 million) package from Aid to the Church in Need will support…
Read morePope Francis greets pilgrims during the General Audience on Feb. 26, 2014. Credit: Giulio Napolitano/CNA. By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Feb 16, 2018 / 07:38 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday Pope Francis…
Read moreAbove, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius Aphrem II celebrates Holy Qurobo Mass over the ruins of the (Syriac Orthodox) Virgin Mary Church in Deir ez-Zour, Syria. Below, Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem walks through the streets of the ravaged city. (Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate)…
Read moreChaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, talks about religious pluralism at Georgetown University in Washington Feb. 15. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) By Mark Pattison • Catholic News Service • Posted February 16, 2018…
Read moreFrom Florida to post-ISIS Iraq, incidents of mass violence have pushed humanitarian groups to offer care for trauma and ways for communities to rebond. The Monitor’s Editorial Board February 16, 2018 —Charitable giving in the United States went up 4 percent last year,…
Read moreDear fellow Assyrians, greetings: I am pleased to present to you my book titled “Assyrian Historical Names for Male and female” to be part of your library at home, institution and Church. Please read the “Foreword and the Introduction of the book”. It is our duties to promote and preserve our…
Read moreAs Syria’s war soon enters its eighth year, many decry the recent dangerous escalation in the conflict, whether in the country’s north, between Turkey and the Kurds, or in the south, between Iran and Israel. Speaking from the sprawling Zaatari Refugee Camp housing 80,000 Syrians near…
Read moreThere is also need for more representation of Eastern Catholics at the Curia Anne-Bénédicte Hoffner Patriarch Louis-Raphael Sako during a Mass in Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan on Oct. 25, 2016. (Photo by Safin Hamed/AFP)…
Read moreFEATURING curved floor-to-ceiling windows, a dual staircase and a whole lot of marble, this house in southwest Sydney is for sale — and it is attracting buyers from all over the country. Marissa Georgopoulos Macarthur Chronicle Camden…
Read moreJohn L. Allen Jr. The scene of a May 2015 attack on Christians in Aleppo. (Credit: Melkite Archdiocese of Aleppo.) ROME – Pope Francis said his regular morning Mass on Tuesday for the “persecuted Christians of the Middle East,” celebrating the liturgy alongside Patriarch Youssef Absi…
Read moreACN, Aid to the Church in Need, Iraq, Erbil Christian family returning to Nineveh By: John Newton and Murcadha O Flaherty Christians forced out of their ancestral lands in northern Iraq are rejoicing after Aid to…
Read moreALLISON LAWLOR Loai Al Rifai started a school for Syrian refugees in Halifax after he realized his children and the other Syrian children he met would lose their first language. (CONTRIBUTED) On a dull, grey winter morning, inside a nondescript apartment building, something magical is taking place. Dressed in a long dark dress and a…
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