Monthly Archives: June 2018

The Sterling Heights City Council introduced a plan June 5 to rezone property near the Chaldean Community Foundation in Sterling Heights so that the foundation can build an addition. Photo by Erin Sanchez…

Iraq’s biblical challenge John L. Allen Jr. and Inés San Martín Crux Now The town of Karamlesh in northern Iraq as seen from the top of Santa Barbara Church, once used by ISIS snipers to keep people out of the town during their occupation of the region. INÉS SAN MARTÍN…

By Doreen Abi Raad Catholic News Service BEIRUT — When Islamic State fighters overran Qaraqosh, Iraq, in the summer of 2014, Mothana Butres was able to grab only a single volume from his father’s collection of thousands of Syriac books and manuscripts.…

Iraqi Christians attend a mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh / Getty Images BY: Jeffrey Cimmino The United States Agency for International Development is providing coalitions led by…

A family at the Sharia Al Haman Hope refugee camp in Duhok, Iraq, March 28, 2015. Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA. By Courtney Grogan Washington D.C., Jun 19, 2018 / 04:52 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The United States…

Ashurbanipal, a ‘psychopathic bookworm’, ruled a vast empire in seventh century BC A relief detail of Ashurbanipal hunting on horseback, which is part of the British Museum exhibition. Photograph: British Museum/PA Before the mighty empires of Egypt, Greece and Rome came Assyria and a leader who,…

Above, Sebastiano Caputo is committed to serving Middle East Christians in his aid work. Below, SOS volunteers gather in Erbil, Iraq, May 25. (Main photo courtesy of Sebastiano Caputo; volunteers photo by Edward Pentin) Sebastiano Caputo, head of SOS Chrétiéns d’Orient in Italy, says needs of Christians vary widely across the region.…

Washington Post: Under pressure from Pence, U.S. aid is directed to Christian, Yazidi communities in Iraq “The premier U.S. aid agency is poised to send millions of dollars directly to Christian and Yazidi communities in Iraq under a rarely used, streamlined funding arrangement after coming under pressure from Vice President Pence. … The aid push…

By Cheyna Roth DETROIT, MI (MPRN)– A federal judge in Detroit will hear arguments today about alleged strong-arm tactics against Iraqi detainees. The ACLU represents several hundred Iraqi immigrants who face deportation orders for crimes – many of which were committed years ago and for which sentences were…

Iraqi Christian population has declined by one million since 2002 Christian militiamen in Telskuf, northern Iraq / Getty Images BY: Jeffrey Cimmino Vice President Mike Pence announced two weeks ago that the United States would…

Christian church in Iraq (Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images) By Solange Reyner Iraqi Christians are hopeful of Vice President Mike Pence’s promise to fast-track millions of dollars in aid to their plight, but their numbers are dwindling quickly and rebuilding efforts are slow and uneven, The Washington Free Beacon reports.…

By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter | (PHOTO: REUTERS/MUHAMMAD HAMED)Syrian refugee Ahmad al Aboud, and his family members, walk to board their plane in Amman, Jordan in April 2016 bound for the United States. As research shows that white evangelicals are the least likely demographic to believe…

By Paul Iddon An Iraqi woman walks through a former Jewish quarter of Baghdad. File photo: Karim Kadim/AP The Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has recently reiterated that Iraq’s long exiled Jewish community “are welcome” to return to the country, “If their loyalty was with Iraq.”…

John L. Allen Jr. Aghata Marogy Eshaz, a Chaldean Catholic from the village of Batnaya on the Nineveh Plains, and one of her granddaughters. (Credit: Crux/John Allen.) ROME – Though Catholicism is always full of drama, which is what makes it so utterly fascinating, some things are more dramatic than others. While 2018 is only…

by Louis Raphael Sako* For the end of Ramadan festival, Mar Sako addresses a message of good wishes to Muslim brothers and sisters. He expresses hopes that winning parties in the recent elections will take responsibility, overcome allegations of fraud and promote unity for an executive that moves towards reconciliation, peace, stability and reconstruction.…

Tony Assaf BISHOP SAAD SIROP HANNA Abducted for 28 days in 2006 by a group of terrorists associated with al-Qaeda, tortured, and threatened with death, Iraqi bishop Saad Sirop Hanna refused to renounce Christ.…

Inés San Martín VATICAN_CORRESPONDENT The town of Karamles, as seen from the top of the Santa Barbara Church, that was used by ISIS snipers to keep people out of the town during their occupation of the region. (Credit: Inés San Martín.)…

By Madeeha Bakhsh – Iraqi Christians hosted a grand Iftar dinner for their fellow Muslims. In a demonstration of social harmony and promoting coexistence, a church in Erbil, Iraq’s Kurdistan region hosted this dinner on June 12, Tuesday.…

Under President Trump’s orders, USAID is directing aid to persecuted communities in Iraq. Christian militiamen look toward the Islamic State frontline from St. George’s Church in Telskuf, Iraq, Nov. 4, 2015. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images By Mark Green…

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who formed a coalition with a pro-Iranian political bloc, is known to call for ending sectarianism in Iraq Haaretz Jewish writings on the tomb are seen at a Jewish cemetery in the Sadr City district of…