Monthly Archives: April 2018

Karzan Sulaivany Karzan Sulaivany | Rita Habib described the moment she was reunited with her father after nearly four years of Islamic State captivity as “a dream.” (Photo: Kurdistan 24) Islamic State Christians Iraq Syria…

Sydney – On April 2, 2018, the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) and the Assyrian Australian National Federation (AANF) hosted another successful Assyrian New Year festival at the Fairfield showground. An estimated fifteen thousand people were in attendance to celebrate this important Assyrian holiday.…

Jardine Malado (YouTube/The Royal Family Channel)Prince Charles appears in a screen capture of a video of his Easter message. The Prince of Wales has offered to support Christians who are persecuted around the world and stressed that “they are not forgotten.”…

The time has come in Iraq to ask ourselves ‘What have you done for your brother?’ says Chaldean Catholic Church Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako Anne-Bénédicte Hoffner Ruins of the Chaldean Catholic cathedral on the citadel in Kirkuk. (Photo by Levi Clancy)…

News/Kurdistan A delegation from the Kurdistan Islamic Union on Sunday 1/4/2018 under the chairmanship of political council member Farhad Mala Saleh, visited the Great Church of Ankawa in the city of Ankawa.…

By Toufic Baaklini, opinion contributor — The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill Today, over 1 billion Christians worldwide celebrate the death and resurrection of their Savior Jesus Christ, remembering that Jesus was ridiculed and persecuted in his life.…

Rev Andrew White A Syrian Christian woman at Mass Christians in Syria often support the Assad regime, because they fear the alternatives Credit: LOUAI BESHARA/ AFP…

Philip Willan | The Times Hundreds of Christians gathered in St Peter’s Square to listen to the pontiff’s message The Pope appealed yesterday for an end to the “carnage” in Syria and for reconciliation between Palestinians and Jews in his traditional Easter message.…

Backed by Russia, Assad’s forces have scor-ed a series of victories over rebel forces in recent years. Syrian Christians stand outside the Mariamite Cathedral of Damascus, one of the oldest Greek Orthodox churches in the Syrian capital, after attending a mass to celebrate Palm. (Photo: AFP)…

Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC Ambassador Tina Kaidanow, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, will travel to Turkey and Iraq March 28-April 3.…

By Toby Murphy on March 30, 2018 News Summary The Prince says he has met many people who have fled for their life, with all three Abrahamic faiths knowing persecution. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales visits Holy Trinity Church on April 23, 2016 in Stratford-…

The extraordinary 2010 film Of Gods and Men, by the French director Xavier Beauvois, depicts the kidnapping and murder of nine Trappist monks in Algeria by Islamic fundamentalists in 1996. In one of its most memorable moments, an old tape machine plays Tchaikovsky’s Grand Theme from Swan Lake while the camera focuses on the…