Monthly Archives: December 2018

Iraq’s capital is throwing itself into the spirit of Christmas, with shops and restaurants festooned with decorations, trees and effigies of Santa Claus A woman walks past a store selling Christmas decorations in Baghdad, Iraq (Reuters) Tom Westcott’s picture…

Wearing Santa outfits in the streets of Hamdaniya, Iraq, on Friday.CreditCreditKhalid Al-Mousily/Reuters By Rod Nordland Never mind who’s being naughty or nice, Santa Claus himself supposedly has had…

Young Chaldean Catholics refugees from Iraq perform a Christmas choral concert in Beirut, Lebanon. Credit: Hannah Brockhaus/CNA. Hannah Brockhaus Beirut, Lebanon, Dec 23, 2018 / 02:40 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On the last Saturday…

by Abigail Frymann Rouch German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (right) and Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Thimotheus Alshamany visit the Mar Mattai monastery near Mosul, Iraq, last week A DELEGATION of senior Middle Eastern clergy are pleading with British government…

By Rudaw Fr. Najib Mikhael Moussa has been appointed Archbishop of Mosul. File photo: Safin Hamed/AFP ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Pope Francis has appointed a new archbishop to lead the Chaldean Church in Mosul.…

Assyrians hold banners as they march in solidarity with the Assyrians abducted by Islamic State fighters in Syria earlier this week, in Beirut February 28, 2015. (Reuters) Al Arabiya English, Dubai US forces’ withdrawal from northern Syria could negatively impact Christian…

Mgr Georges Abou Khazen is taking part “with devotion and meditation” in Advent celebrations. However, there is little optimism and a lot of fatigue in the city about the end of the conflict. The Latin parish is providing clothing 900 children, including Muslims.…

by Dale Gavlak, Catholic News Service U.S. soldiers surveil the area during a combined joint patrol Nov. 1 in Manbij, Syria. (CNS/Zoe Garbarino, U.S. Army handout via Reuters) Amman, Jordan — Several Mideast-based Christians working on the Syria crisis have…

By Samuel Smith, CP Reporter A group of Assyrian Christian soldiers just outside their headquarters somewhere in Syria. | (PHOTO: Wladimir van Wilgenburg) President Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria will have dire…

iStock.com/Sean_Warren Chancellor Kurz, Archbishop Schönborn and Middle Eastern patriarchs join forces. By Josué Michels Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz hosted leaders of the Christian churches in Iraq…

Mar Sako: in Jesus the example of humanity to be followed. Christians can make an essential contribution to the rebirth of the country. BAGHDAD: The period of Advent that prepares for the coming of Christ is an occasion of “rebirth of huamnity”, According to which man becomes human, not a “predatory…

By Tracy Samilton The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has thrown a last-minute monkey wrench into the ongoing legal battle by the ACLU and Miller Canfield to free Iraqis living in the U.S. who were rounded up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the summer of 2017.…

Geoffrey P. Johnston Geoffrey P. Johnston Iraqi Christians attend a mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh (also known as Hamdaniya), some 30 kilometres from Mosul in July 2017. (Afin Hamed/Getty Images) Despite having endured years of violent persecution and terrible hardships, many Iraqi…

Thursday, 21 December 2018 A get together organised on Thursday 20 December 2018, by the Assyrian Universal Alliance-Australian Chapter and the Assyrian Australian National Federation celebrating Christmas with all members, supporters, parliamentarians and representatives of the Armenian, Greek, Jewish, Italian, Vietnamese and Assyrian organisations at Marconi…

Father Benham Benoka (Edward Pentin photo) Blogs A Syriac Catholic priest in the Northern Iraqi town of Bartella tells the Register of recent efforts to threaten Christians so they leave the region, and why security, jobs and a greater Christian presence are needed there more than ever.…

. By Benedict Kiely AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo In March of 2017, with the battle for control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, raging just miles away, I was driven into the town of Karamles, recently liberated from ISIS control. Together with a journalist friend, the parish priest of the town and an American…

Girls navigate a muddy street Dec. 5 as they make their way to school amid the rubble of the Old City of Mosul, Iraq. when Islamic State controlled the city,most children did not attend school. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey) By Paul Jeffrey • Catholic News Service • Posted December 17, 2018…

Christian Today staff writer Open Doors has appealed for help for Syrian families who are traumatised, lacking basic food and medicines and struggling to cope with the effects of the war. Around 12,000 families are being supported through church-run Centres of Hope funded by donations from Open Doors supporters around the world.…

by Catholic News Service ‘Two of my churches were hit by airstrikes, two others were damaged. Nothing was left but the walls. But I don’t feel hopeless’ Girls navigate a muddy street on as they make their way to school amid the rubble of…

Approximately one million Christians have left Iraq since 2002, leaving fewer than 250,000 Christian militiamen in Telskuf, northern Iraq / Getty Images BY: Jeffrey Cimmino Over the past year, the United States has taken steps to aid Christians driven from their…