LEBANON-SYRIA-IRAQ-RELIGION-CHRISTIANITY-CHRISTMAS ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images The Assyrian Church in Syria may have paid more than a million dollars to the Islamic State (ISIS) in extortion fees, the New York Times claimed in a report Wednesday.…

Vulnerable communities in Syria were so traumatised by Daesh that they may never return Ishaq Nisaan, a retired oilman, visits the ruins of a church he helped build in his home village of Tel Tal, Syria. Gulf News…

Ishaq Nisaan at the ruins of a church he helped build in the village where he grew up in Syria.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times By Ben Hubbard TEL TAL, Syria — The memories of the retired oilman dot the village in Syria where he…

Meeting also nominates new bishops, monks and nuns as clergy shortfall looms La Croix International staff (with Catholic News Service) Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako at the Vatican June 28. (Photo by Fabio Frustaci/MaxPPP)…

Elise Harris :SENIOR CORRESPONDENT Worshippers pray during Mass in 2017 at St. George Chaldean Catholic church in Teleskof, Iraq, which was damaged by Islamic State militants. (Credit: Marko Djurica/Reuters via CNS.)…

Assyrian Archbishop Ramzi Garmou (C) leads Mass rituals on Christmas Eve at the Saint Joseph Chaldean-Assyrian Catholic church in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by AP) Iran’s Assyro-Chaldean churches have censured US officials’ “interventionist” claims about the situation of religious minorities in the Islamic Republic, calling on Washington…

In response to His Beatitude (H. B.) Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako’s invitation, the Synod of the Chaldean Church held its’ annual meeting, 7-13 August 2018, at the Patriarchate Headquarters in Baghdad. Bishops of different dioceses participated, including Australia, America, Canada, Europe, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, bearing in…

Chaldean Catholic synod offers thanks for return of displaced Christians Dale Gavlak CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE A clergyman and altar servers process during Mass in 2014 at St. Joseph Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, Iraq. The synod for the Iraqi Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad took place Aug. 7-13. (Credit: Ahmed Saad/Reuters via CNS.)…

Prosecutors accuse Joseph Assad of conspiring to bring down government Julian Borger in Washington Shaun Walker in Budapest ?Milo ?jukanovi?? The alleged coup plot involved the assassination of former prime minister Milo…

© AP Photo / Risto Bozovic In a bizarre twist concerning a convoluted year-long trial into an alleged 2016 Montenegrin coup plot, which Podgorica claims involved “Russian state agencies,” Montenegrin prosecutors have called for the arrest of a former CIA officer they say was involved.…

The Synod 2018, held August 7 to 13 in Baghdad, gathered local prelates and those from the diaspora. The tensions between Washington and Tehran worry: no sanctions but diplomacy. The return of Christians and the reconstruction work that are fundamental for the rebirth of Iraq.…

Elise Harris SENIOR CORRESPONDENT An Iraqi boy is glad to receive food provided by the Knights of Columbus. The Catholic fraternal organization has raised and committed almost $19 million in aid to Christians and other persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East. (Credit: CNS…

Fehim Tastekin A Christian worshipper lights candles following a mass on Christmas at the Virgin Mary Syriac Orthodox Church in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Dec. 25, 2017. As tensions simmered between Ankara and Washington over detained American pastor…

Ankawa.com / exclusive The displaced families from Mosul and the Nineveh Plain residing in Ashti 2 Camp (the caravans) in Ankawa asked the administration of the camp and the authorities to support this complex and not to drive them out at the present time and hand the camp…

Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako has expressed concern over the delay in forming a new Iraqi government, rise in social protests and the persistence of corruption Anne-Bénédicte Hoffner Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako celebrates Mass at Sacred Heart Church in Tal Kaif, north…

By ACN Staff Categories: Christians Under Siege, News ISIS HAS BEEN OUSTED from the Christian towns and villages on the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq, but Syriac-Orthodox Archbishop Timotheus Musa Al Shamani is worried about the lack of security.…

Region:Turkey Theme: Politics, Analytics The minority leaders were pressured by the Turkish regime to claim that they are not pressured, Armenian-American writer, public activist and publisher of The California Courier, Harut Sassounian notedd.…

Courtney Grogan Catholic News Agency Icon of Our Lady Help of Persecuted Christians, presented at the Knight of Columbus convention. Credit CNA Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Carl Anderson pledged the fraternal…

Elise Harris A Catholic church destroyed by Islamic State militants in Karamles, Iraq, is examined by a priest following the 2016 liberation of the predominantly Christian town. St. John the Baptist Parish Knights of Columbus Council 10305 in Fort Calhoun, Neb., is supporting…

Hundreds of Iraqi Christians in Karamles took part in a procession last night, to commemorate the night four years ago earlier, when IS/Daesh drove many tens of thousands of Christians from the towns and villages of the Nineveh Plain. Before the procession, there were prayers and a reflection on the pain and suffering…