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The establishment of a migrant shelter centre has been completed in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, under agreements signed between Qatar Charity (QC) and the United Nations International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in 2020 and last year, while other urgent-response projects are under implementation in Iraq, Yemen and…
Read moreIran (International Christian Concern) – Three out of four Iranian Christians who were awaiting appeal outcomes have finally received verdicts. Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani and Deacon Saheb Fadaie were both given six-year sentences and Mohammadreza Omidi received a two-year sentence. All of these were reduced from…
Read moreThe airstrikes now target areas where there has been coexistence between Christians and Kurds, raining down bombs where children play in their parents’ yards.By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Turkish F-16 fighter jet(photo credit: REUTERS)…
Read moreBy Claire Evans06/22/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Once again, the crops of Iraqi Christian farmers have burned. Charred earth spreads seemingly forever near Karmalesh, a small Christian village devastated by ISIS’s genocide. Some locals had…
Read more06/22/2020 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Over the weekend, the Turkish Air Force continued bombing NW Iraq, reportedly displacing many and killing up to five civilians. Turkey claims that some members of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) are based in this area and that they were the target. However, several of the impacted…
Read moreAsharq Al-Awsat releases excerpts from the former Lebanese president’s memoirsAmin Gemayel (R) seen at the Baabda presidential palace after Michel Aoun was named head of a military government. (Getty Images)London – Asharq Al-Awsat…
Read moreThe young pastor wasn’t sure his congregation would like what he had to say and had no idea where it would lead all of them. He found himself at a crossroads of God, Alabama and Donald Trump.…
Read moreSource: Al-Arabiya TV (Dubai/Saudi Arabia)Former Saudi Minister of Justice Sheikh Muhammad Issa, who currently serves as the Secretary-General of the Muslim World League, said in a June 17, 2020 interview on Al-Arabiya Network (Saudi Arabia) that some people misunderstand the Quranic verse that…
Read moreTurkey and Iran are conducting operations against Kurdish groups in the country.A resident walks past a crater caused by a Turkish airstrike against the Kurdistan Workers Party in Sigire on the outskirts of Duhok province, Iraq, Aug. 16, 2015. Photo by REUTERS/Ari Jalal.Al-Monitor Staff…
Read moreby Jonathan LuxmooreAn aerial view of deserted streets around Hagia Sophia, in Istanbul, during a two-day curfew, on 11 AprilEASTERN ORTHODOX leaders have urged the Turkish government to abandon plans…
Read moreBy Staff Reports -Richard L. Welty, 84, of Needham who “Was born to be a Farmer” passed away Friday, June 12, 2020, at Greenwood Village South. Richard was born in Morgan County in Hall, IN to Delmas and Evelyn (York) Welty on November 2, 1935.…
Read moreResidents are evacuated from the facility dedicated to the Virgin Mary because of possible coronavirus infections. The site has been sanitised. Iraq has reported more than 21,000 cases with 650 deaths. For the Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad, things are getting worse because of the “invisible enemy” who “knows no mercy” and affects “all ages”.…
Read moreIn a letter, the cardinal calls on the faithful to seize the opportunity despite the tragic period. The coronavirus has changed the way people meet, whilst strengthening relations. We need “a new language” from the clergy to answer people’s questions. Many religious and lay people and “different charisms” stand as examples.Baghdad…
Read moreDani Ellis from London is based in northeastern Syria as a volunteer and electrical engineer (Picture: Dani Ellis) ‘Men, particularly young men, are much more respectful here and in one year I’ve had less catcalling and harassment in the street than I’d get in one week in the UK,’ Dani Ellis tells us from her…
Read moreby Martina Moyski • ChurchMilitant.com • Hungarian diplomat vows support for religious freedom.DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) – Senior secular and religious leaders from around the world are applauding President Trump’s efforts to advance religious freedom worldwide.…
Read moreThe testimony now now makes it appears that US officials ignored the ethnic cleansing and harm to minorities in Syria.By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A girl from the Yazidi sect fleeing the violence in Sinjar rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province, in 2014…
Read moreby Uzay Bulut “In 2017, after the Nineveh Plains were liberated from ISIS, Iran’s influence started its increase. They now have allied support from Shiite groups in Baghdad… The presence of the Shia Shabak is expanding, particularly in the town of Bartella. They are taking…
Read moreThe partial withdrawal of US troops from northeast Syria in October created a vacuum for religious repression, a bipartisan US agency says. Turkish army tanks and armored personnel carriers are seen near the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay province, Turkey, Jan. 23, 2018. Photo by REUTERS/Umit Bektas.…
Read moreBreaking Israel News has published an opinion, entitled “Armenia’s self-defeating campaign against Christians.”News.Az presents the opinion by Jacob Kamaras, editor for the Jewish News Service.…
Read moreMany Assyrians living in southern Turkey fear for their future, as few communities remain in their ancestral homeland. Assyrians were persecuted during the 20th century and in the late 1980s and 1990s, conflict in the region forced many Assyrians to flee their homelands for Europe or Istanbul, where there are sizeable communities today.…
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