Whether COVID-19 or ISIS, believers from Iraq, Syria, and Egypt know “neither plague nor persecution can snuff out the church of Christ.”Jayson CasperIraqi Christians gather for the first Easter service in Qaraqosh after it was liberated from…

By Fionn Shiner MORE than three years on from the defeat of Daesh (ISIS), Islamists in Iraq are as determined as ever to rid their towns and cities of Christians – according to a senior bishop, who has warned of a surge in extremism.…

Nick Manes Chaldean Chamber, state representative call for suspension of in-person lottery salesStores can now opt to halt sales, but some want state mandateWhitmer administration is reviewing the issue…

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:45 P.M.) – With the withdrawal of the U.S. Armed Forces from several bases in Iraq, a number of NATO nations have followed suit, the spokesperson for the Iraqi Joint Operations revealed in a recent interview.…

By Claire Evans04/01/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – The Nineveh Governorate has come to a grinding halt because of COVID-19, impacting the ability of returnees to maintain whatever life they had developed post-ISIS. The militias are…

Monday, March 30, 2020 4:35AMCHICAGO (WLS) — In an effort to enforce social distancing guidelines, Chicago police had to disperse a church service involving a large group on the Far North Side Sunday.…

Msgr. Warduni says this is not the time to “be pessimistic”, even if the celebrations “are not the same”, “solidarity” is required. Chaldean patriarchate issues indications for Holy Week “adapted” to these “exceptional circumstances”. In these dark times, “greater unity” between Christians and Muslims.…

Sangar Ali |Crowds celebrate last year’s holiday of Akitu, the Assyrian New Year, in the Kurdistan Region’s city of Duhok, April 1, 2019. (Photo: Kurdistan 24/Levi Clancy) Kurdistan Akitu KRG Iraq…

By Robert Gearty | Fox NewsFox News Flash top headlines for March 30Chicago cops enforced a statewide coronavirus stay-at-home order at an Assyrian church Sunday, dispersing a large crowd that was there for a funeral.…

03/29/2020 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Iraq’s strict coronavirus restrictions are having potentially disastrous implications for Christians persecuted by ISIS attempting to rebuild their lives in the Nineveh Plains, a disputed territory currently under control of the Central Government.…

03/28/2020 Syria (International Christian Concern) – Nearly a week after Turkish sponsored armed groups cut the water supply for 460,000 people living in Syria’s Hasakah province, the supply has been restored. This restoration comes with the demand that Turkey receives 30-50% of the Mabrouka station’s total electrical output,…

Above, Mosul’s destroyed Chaldean Catholic archbishopric is shown. (Courtesy of Xavier Bisits )COMMENTARY: PART I — Iraq’s mostly Catholic Christian population declined from 5% to 0.2% between 2003 and 2019. Today, after 17 years of church bombings,…

By Samuel Smith, CP Reporter Martyrs Rally, organized by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, November 12, 2016. | (Photo: Reuters/Umit Bektas)The decaying remains of an elderly woman and mother of a Catholic Chaldean priest in Turkey were found last week, two months after she was abducted alongside her…

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ…who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.(2 Cor. 1:3-4)…

·     ACN project partner’s heart-felt coronavirus message By John Pontifex AN intrepid nun, who coordinates emergency relief in Syria, has responded to the coronavirus pandemic by sending a message of prayer and solidarity to friends and benefactors of a leading Catholic charity.…

NBC 7’s Dave Summers introduces us to two sisters who started a network of volunteers who shop for non-English speaking elderly folks.…

Chaldean couple, ?imoni Diril has been found dead 69 days later. George Diril, her nephew, says, “The spot where her body was found is 10 minutes from the village. Maybe, it would not end like this if they had been sincerely searched.”Ruken Tuncel ?stanbul – BIA News Desk…

Fionn ShinerFr Charbel Eid Rizkallah with icon of Our Lady of SorrowsChristians in Syria are an example for the whole Church of how to keep hope in a time of life-changing crisis – according to a senior priest who is working with parish communities all over the country.…

Steve Rasche speaks at a conference on Christian persecution in Hungary. (Edward Pentin photo )Stephen Rasche discusses what he has learned from 10 years working in the Archdiocese of Erbil alongside Iraq’s persecuted Christian minority.…

By Fionn Shiner CHRISTIANS in Syria are an example for the whole Church of how to keep hope in a time of life-changing crisis – according to a senior priest who is working with parish communities all over the country.…