Monthly Archives: January 2020

Dalia al-Aquidi is tired of Ilhan Omar playing identity politics. “Muslims, Christians, Jews are all Americans,” she said.By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS  JANUARY 18, 2020 01:53Democratic congressional candidate Ilhan Omar speaks at her election night party in Minneapolis.(photo credit: ERIC MILLER/REUTERS)…

Three months into Turkey’s offensive, an ancient Christian community in Syria’s northeast is experiencing a nightmare in a loop. With nowhere to go, their future looks increasingly bleak.…

Written by ICCA Chaldean Catholic church in Turkey. (Dosseman/CC)The elderly parents of a priest were recently kidnapped from their village by unidentified men.…

 The Chaldean primate led the ceremony in the presence of bishops, priests, nuns and many faithful. In his homily, the cardinal stressed that every priest “must be like” Jesus, a “caring and kind” father. Turning to Frs Hanna and Shamil, he reminded them that prayers help “overcome difficulties”.…

ANKAWA, Iraq – The Directorate of Syriac Heritage and Museum in Ankawa, a suburb of Erbil, received a delegation from the U.S. Consulate General in Erbil. The two sides discussed a project for developing the Syriac Heritage Museum within a minority support and heritage preservation program.…

Craig Mauger The Detroit News Lansing — The president of the Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce says a Michigan Senate employee should resign or be fired over Facebook posts he made about Chaldeans’ use of “Black Bridge card money.”…

Greg Piper – Associate Editor Share this article: The College Fix on Facebook The College Fix on Twitter The College ‘How will we ever bring Drag Queen Story Hour to Raqqa’? If you thought the Middle East had bigger problems than being insufficiently woke for progressive American academics, well, this isn’t the conference for you.…

Is our destiny defined by events outside our control, limiting our potential for progress or even our chances of survival? Christian Science shows how we can experience the bright promise of salvation and blessings, not doom, in our daily lives.…

John PontifexA Christmas Eve bonfire at Mar Jacob al-Muqataa Syriac Catholic church in Qaraqosh (Getty) Any further deterioration in relations between Iran and the West could lead to the end of Christianity in the region…

Mardean IsaacMembers of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units guard a church (Getty)Patriarch Louis Sako of the Chaldean Catholic Church took the unprecedented move of cancelling Christmas celebrations in Iraq, following the violence unleashed upon regime…

Saad Salloum Women hold candles while attending Christmas mass at the Mar Shimoni Church in Bartella, Iraq, Dec. 24, 2016. BAGHDAD — In 2021, Iraqis will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the modern state of Iraq. In light of the current major changes in Iraq, Iraqi Christians feel…

OpinionGreg Jarrell  | Shortly after the terrorism of September 11, 2001, the “moderate” Baptist church my wife and I were attending as seminarians made a decision. In their immoderate confusion, on the brink of a war without an enemy or a conceivable ending, the Baptist church erected a tall pole to fly an American flag.…

by Ellen Teague , James Roberts The Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Erbil Bashar Warda in 2017 Photo: Alexander Heinl/DPA/PA ImagesThe Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Kirkuk in Iraq said the majority of Iraqis wanted…

By: Kimberly Craig DETROIT (WXYZ) — The office of State Sen. Betty Jean Alexander was inundated with phone calls this week from people who were upset by comments her chief of staff made on Facebook regarding Chaldeans.…

John L. Allen Jr. | Crux Now Iraqi Christians in Baghdad leave Christmas Mass at St. George Chaldean Church Dec. 25, 2019. (CNS photo/Khalid al Mousily, Reuters)ROME — Catholics, at least in theory, are supposed to have a special filter for viewing…

Persecuted Christians |He is the first bishop of the biggest diocese in India, Shamshabad, which includes 23 states and two islands. It’s an eparchy of the Syro-Malabar Rite, created two years ago by Pope Francis to strengthen unity among Christian Indians.…

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the generous contribution of USD 2 million in flexible funds from the Republic of Korea to support internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, and refugees in Iraq.…

Bileçen, the priest of Mor Yakup Church in Mardin, was arrested on January 10 on charge of “aiding and abetting a terrorist organization”.?stanbul – BIA News Desk After Aho (Sefer) Bileçen, the priest of Mor Yakup Church in Mardin, was arrested on January 10 on charge of “aiding and abetting a terrorist…

By Susan Korah, Op-Ed Contributor Cross at Syriac Catholic Seminary destroyed by ISIS, Baghdida, Iraq. | (Photo: Bill Devlin) It was the trip of a lifetime in a lifetime of crisscrossing the globe.Part pilgrimage to explore my spiritual and cultural roots as a Syriac Orthodox Christian (Suriani), and…

By Fionn Shiner and Maria Lozano FOUR seminarians kidnapped in Nigeria by armed intruders have been named by a leading Catholic charity which supports persecuted Christians.…