Monthly Archives: August 2019

Kurdish fighters in Qamishli, Syria, take part in a military parade March 28, 2019. Groups representing Syriac Christians in northeast Syria are appealing for prayer, fearful that Turkey plans to make good its numerous threats to invade the region with its military forces. (Credit: CNS photo/Rodi Said, Reuters.)…

NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — After a decade of anonymity, Satoshi Nakamoto will break his silence in Part I of his “My Reveal”…

By Tom O’Connor The United States and its coalition allies against the Islamist State militant group (ISIS) in Iraq have agreed to new, stricter airspace regulations issued by the government after a mysterious explosion that caused dozens of civilian casualties.…

This man has lived in the U.S since he was three years old, but the Trump admin could put his life at risk by deporting him to Iraq.…

Holy Land Ecumenical Foundation At the invitation of His Beatitude Patriarch Cardinal Mar Louis Raphael Sako, the annual Chaldean Synod was held at the Patriarchal summer…

Pope Francis blesses an image of Mary in St. Peter’s Square May 3, 2017. Credit: L’Osservatore Romano By Courtney Grogan AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to Facebook Share to TwitterShare to WhatsAppShare to PinterestShare to PrintFriendlyShare to More Vatican City, Aug 15, 2019 / 05:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis announced Thursday…

The women fighters in the National Defence Forces of Al Sqeilbiyyeh – a Syrian Christian town at the border with Idlib. © Vanessa Beeley…

Sarah Rahal ommunity members share a moment of silence at a vigil to remember Jimmy Al-Daoud on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019 at the Chaldean Community Foundation in Sterlings Heights. Al-Daoud, of Detroit, was found dead in Iraq earlier this month after he was deported. Elaine Cromie, Elaine Cromie for The Detroit News…

By Bethann Flynn Iraq (MNN) — ISIS was defeated in Iraq 18 months ago. However, the Nineveh Plains has another problem—the local Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Shiite militia. Nineveh Plains Christians To the north of the Nineveh Plains sits the Kurds, and to the east is Iran. To the south and west is the…

Forty-one lawmakers, led by Democratic Rep. Andy Levin of Michigan, note that the administration has repeatedly been asked to end the deportations but refused. | Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo…

By TNH Staff  Archbishop Elpidophoros met with members of the Standing Conference of the Oriental Orthodox Churches (SCOOCH). Among those members was His Grace Bishop David (Coptic), SCOOCH President; His…

This is one of the Scythian type arrowheads found in the destruction layer from 587/586 BCE. / Mt Zion Archaeological Expedition/Virginia Withers…

Dozens of Iraqi Chaldeans were detained in US immigration raids in 2017. [Getty] Jimmy Aldaoud’s tragic death casts light on the plight of Iraqi Chaldean deportees, a community that once saw Donald Trump as their saviour.…

Christians and other religious minorities are among the migrants making the dangerous journey across the Channel in an attempt to reach Britain’s shores, according to a report.…

By Dale Gavlak • Catholic News Service Cardinal Louis Sako, the Chaldean Catholic patriarch, celebrates a liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in this Feb. 4, 2013, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)…

From the leaders of the Iraqi Church the hope of a return of families displaced by ISIS and a strengthening of the reconstruction process. A “just representation” of Christians in…

by Julia Duin This is a news story about religion, mental illness, the U.S. government, deportation and Iraq. Perhaps you’ve already heard about the heartbreaking story of Jimmy Aldaoud, the…

Iraqi Christians attend a mass during a Christmas Eve celebration at al-Tahira al-Kubra Church in Karakosh in 2018. (Photo by AMMAR SALIH/EPA/MAXPPP)…

Statement on the Assyrian Martyr Day and the 104 years anniversary of the Assyrian Genocide Sydney – August 7, 6769-2019 On August 7 of every year, Assyrians around the world salutes the memory of their martyrs and victims of the genocide.…

By Matt Hadro Christian leaders and local legislators have mourned the death of a Chaldean Christian who had been deported to Iraq by the United States.…