Monthly Archives: July 2018

By Mark Bowling Iraqi medical students with Archbishop Mark Coleridge Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge with Iraqi students Ban Isaqi (left), Hana Keka and Dr Saveen Oghana (right).…

Increasingly, newly arrived refugees are being required to navigate online forms in English for services crucial to their everyday life, such as online banking and Centrelink. The Chaldean League of NSW identified a need to support newly arrived refugees to develop skills, knowledge and confidence to navigate technology in English.…

by Staff Reporter Fr Benedict Kiely with Sister Ban Madleen Sister Ban Madleen, who fled Islamic State in 2014, was applying to visit her family An Iraqi nun who was forced to flee Islamic State in 2014 has finally been granted entry into Britain after being denied twice.…

DAILY SABAH The Syriac Catholic community received a free lease for 49 years on Sacre Coeur, a church in Istanbul’s waterfront district of Bebek. Officials from the state-run Directorate General of Foundations signed a protocol with a foundation representing the…

Returning survivors tell of rape and violence at hands of brutal ‘owners’ An Islamic State flag flies over territory in northern Iraq The release and return of a number of Christian women taken as slaves by Islamic State in Iraq has prompted questions about those still being held.…

By Patsy Isenberg A lot of people came to downtown Flint on Friday the 13th for ARTWALK, which takes place the second Friday of every month. ARTWALK is sponsored by The Greater Flint Arts Council (GFAC) and includes many galleries, bars and restaurants along and near Saginaw Street.…

Pictured are four cardinals who have been appointed by Pope Francis to preside over sessions of the October 2018 Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment. From left are Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad, Iraq; Cardinal Desire Tsarahazana of Toamasina, Madagascar; Cardinal…

German authorities condemn anti-Semitic violence in word and condone it in deed. Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism…

Doreen Abi Raad CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE A displaced Syrian family who fled violence in Aleppo stands in a field in the rural area of Manbij in 2016. (Credit: Rodi Said/Reuters via CNS.) BEIRUT, Lebanon – Amid the destruction in war-torn Syria, a community of Discalced…

By Rudaw yesterday at 05:04 Iraqi Chaldean Christian children attended a First Communion Mass at the Apostles Peter and Paul Chaldean Catholic Church in Erbil on Friday. Chaldeans are one of Iraq’s shrinking Christian minority communities. Many of them live…

By Alex Williams It has emerged almost 26,000 Christians have now returned to their homes, nearly two years since Islamic State (IS) was driven from their city in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq. Some families have come back to Qaraqosh from internal displacement centres, while…

Steve Warren A group of Iraqi Muslims living in a refugee camp in Greece recently targeted a group of Iranian Christians who were holding a Bible study. Members of the Bible study group are all converts to Christianity.…

Today, members of the faith make up only 4% of the region’s population, down from 20% before WWI Pope Tawadros II, the 118th pope of the Coptic Church of Egypt, is greeted by Egyptian Christians as he prepares to lead a midnight Mass at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, in January 2013 (AP/Amr Nabil)…

Cardinal Patriarch Louis R. Sako -Photo Courtesy Of The Chaldean Patriarchate Of Babylon’s Website Speaking to Zenit in Bari After Pope’s Ecumenical Encounter, Says ‘I Am Convinced There Is a Future for the Gospel’ in the Middle East…

‘Indifference kills, and we desire to lift up our voices in opposition to this murderous indifference,’ says Pope Francis Agence France-Presse RELIGIOUS LEADERS. Pope Francis (L) watches as Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Pope…

In News5 Comments Christians have been rooted in the Middle East as minority communities since the birth of the religion, but their numbers are dwindling amid conflict and jihadist attacks. Christians Today they make up only four percent of the region’s population, down from 20 percent before the First World War, Cardinal Kurt Koch,…

Syrian Catholic Archbishop Youhanna Boutros Moshe of Mosul blesses a newly-erected cross in Bakhdida, Iraq, May 2, 2017. Photo courtesy SOS Chretiens Orient. By Elise Harris Vatican City, Jul 4, 2018 / 08:24 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Since 2014 international…

By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter (Photo: Reuters/Suhaib Salem)Burned candles as seen as Iraqis attend a Palm Sunday procession in the burnt out main church of Qaraqosh, Iraq, April 9, 2017. Iraqi Christian leaders expressed their gratitude to the United States for fulfilling its promise to aid them following years of devastation at the…

Kurdish Regional Government Institutes a New Business Tax on Select Christian Neighborhoods 07/03/18 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on January 23, 2018, the Kurdish Regional Government…

On May 20, the pope released the list of the new cardinals. Among them, Francis included the Chaldean Patriarch, Louis Raphael Sako. The Church of Iraq has celebrated this appointment as a sign of Francis closeness to Christians who have suffered all kinds of difficulties for years.…