Monthly Archives: December 2018

Kenneth R. Timmerman After bombing the monastery in Mosul, ISIS terrorists have been driven underground — but not totally eliminated. When ISIS fighters burst into Father Afran Sony’s monastery in northern Iraq in June…

by Gary Nguyen President Trump Signs Bill to Aid Religious Genocide Victims in Iraq and Syria U.S. President Donald Trump singed the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act -Dec. 11, 2018 Video screenshot Rep. Chris Smith introduced the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act United States President Donald…

President Trump Yesterday, President Donald Trump, signed the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018. The law, which defines as Genocide crimes perpetrated in recent years by Jihadists on Christians and Yazidis in Iraq and Syria, commits the US…

By Lynn Fugaro Leave a Comment Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) save lives. That is not in dispute. Under California law, every “health studio” has a duty to provide and maintain AEDs on site. What was in dispute recently before the California Court of Appeals was whether a “health studio” breached that duty when the member…

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by Michael Rubin Every April, Turkish diplomats and members of the Congressional Turkey Caucus scramble to avert a resolution recognizing as genocide the World War I-era Ottoman massacres of Armenians. Turkish officials oppose any resolution holding Turkey responsible both because the Republic of Turkey was not formally declared until 1923…

U.S. President Donald Trump signs H.R. 390, the ‘Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018’ in the Oval Office at the White House Dec. 11 in Washington, D.C. Those supporting aid efforts in the region, including Archbishop Bashar Warda of the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Erbil, Carl Anderson of the Knights…

Wladimir van Wilgenburg Wladimir van Wilgenburg | Sanharib Barsoum, the deputy head of the Syriac Union Party in Syria. (Photo: Kurdistan 24/Wladimir van Wilgenburg) Syria Christian Rojava Turkey Erdogan SDF…

The bill directs US assistance toward persecuted communities, including through faith-based programmes Associated Press Archbishop Bahar Matti Warda, Archbishop of Erbil and the Chaldean Catholic…

Rebecca Tinsley Any day now, Theoneste Bagosora, a mastermind of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, will be eligible to apply for early release. In 2011, Bagosora’s life-in-prison verdict was reduced to 35 years by Theodor Meron, the American judge heading the international…

Alice Su, Aeon | “The entrance to Karemlash, a small village in northern Iraq, is marked by a sign featuring Jesus Christ, hands beckoning, next to the words ‘Wellcome Back’ [sic]. His beaming smile has taken on an ironic cast for the residents of this minority enclave.…

BUDAPEST, Hungary/GENEVA North-East Mosul was occupied by the Islamic State. The population fled leaving behind destroyed houses, churches, schools and other buildings. Photo: Hungarian Interchurch Aid…

A center for internally displaced persons, most of whom are Christians, in Dawodiya, Iraq, April 10, 2016. Credit: Elise Harris/CNA By Christine Rousselle Washington D.C., Dec 11, 2018 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- President Donald…

J-P Mauro LAND OF THE MONASTERIES ILIA YEFIMOVICH / DPA / DPA PICTURE-ALLIANCE Church properties, unaccessable for nearly 50 years, to be reopened when the land is safe. For nearly 50 years churches at one of the sites where it is believed Christ was baptized by John the Baptist have been inaccessible to pilgrims due…

  World leaders gathered in Marrakesh on December 10 to sign a historic agreement safeguarding the rights of migrants. Despite the withdrawal of some countries, the Global Compact on Migration was approved by 164 countries. It follows the Global Compact on Refugees, approved at the UN in mid-November by all countries, bar one – the…

By Rudaw yesterday Displaced persons mosey in a camp in Iraq. Photo: UNICEF ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — With temperatures reaching 50 Celsius in summer in Iraq, in the north they plummet to freezing leaving hundreds of thousands of IDPs vulnerable to the elements.…

by The Armenian Mirror-Spectator LONDON — Prof. Robert W. Thomson (1934-2018), former Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies at Oxford University (1992-2002), who died recently, is remembered by his colleagues and students for his monumental contributions to Armenian, Syriac, Georgian and Byzantine studies.…

by Madeleine Davies And Archbishop Welby condemns a failure to share in the sufferings of the region REUTERS Fireworks explode during a Christmas-treelighting ceremony outside the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank…

Father Faiz Jerjez, Chaplain of St George’s Anglican Church in Baghdad, is recognised for his peace-building ministry by the Iraqi Army’s Chief of Staff, Lt Gen Othman al-Ghanmi. Photo Credit: All photos: Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf…

Catholic News Service The Conference of the Catholic Patriarchs of the East gathered for its annual meeting Nov. 26-30 in Baghdad under the theme “Youth is a Sign of Hope in the Middle East Countries.” Catholic leaders of the Middle East cautioned that the very existence of…