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…

Mario Schiavone | Syrian children at the launch of the Candle for Peace campaign Pope Francis last Sunday before reciting the Anglus lit a candle sent to him from Syria as part of the Candles for Peace Campaign launched by the international Catholic pastoral charity and pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN…

Pope leads prayers for peace in ‘tormented’ Syria Pope Francis places an Advent candle during the Angelus prayer led from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Dec. 2. The pope lit the candle as he launched the Christmas campaign, “Candles for Peace in Syria,” an initiative of Aid to…

Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The Prince of Wales addresses the service at Westminster Abbey in London to celebrate the contribution of Christians in the Middle East. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA…

By Tim Sculthorpe, Deputy Political Editor For Mailonline Britain could be stuck in the Irish backstop forever if trade talks with the EU break down, the Prime Minister was warned in secret legal advice. The advice drawn up for the Cabinet was finally published today after MPs voted to find the Government in contempt of…

The Prince of Wales was moved after hearing about a nun who helped rescue Christians from ISIS. Helen Storms Prince Charles of Wales had the opportunity to meet with many brave individuals who…

World Watch Monitor The last Christian family remaining in an IDP camp north of Erbil have turned to the local government and aid organisations as they have been asked to leave the camp but have nowhere to go, Kurdish news website Rudaw reports.…

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis lit a candle decorated with the faces of Syrian children suffering from war from his balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, launching a global campaign calling for peace in the country “martyred by a war that has lasted for nearly eight years.”…

Justin Welby says Christians need the “protection and encouragement of governments” as populations in some countries plummet. A Syriac Christian militiaman guards a church in the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh Image: A Syriac Christian militiaman guards a church in the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh…