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The Iraqi Directorate of General Military Intelligence (DGMI) announced on Tuesday that it had arrested families of Daesh militants while they were trying to enter Iraq from Syria.…

PanARMENIAN.Net – September 7 marks 65th anniversary of the Istanbul pogroms of 1955, which saw organized mob attacks directed primarily at Istanbul’s Greek minority. Armenians and Jews were targeted as well.…

Iraq (International Christian Concern) –  A report by Rudaw shared that the Christian village of Sheranish is left abandoned because of Turkish airstrikes in the area over the past several months. Some residents have suffered displacement before, further adding to the pain of yet again having to leave their homes. Residents say that Turkey…

MECC, ACT Alliance and WCC in a Joint Statement: On the lapse of a month after the Beirut blast disaster, the World Council of Churches (WCC), ACT Alliance and the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) presented their condolences to all Lebanese people who lost their loved ones in the catastrophic explosion that ripped through…

Inés San Martín rome bureau chiefWorkers repair water tanks and damaged apartments overlooking the site of the Aug. 4 explosion that hit the seaport, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.)…

By John Pontifex A LEADING Catholic charity is preparing a second wave of help for Beirut amid growing fears that last month’s explosion could spark an exodus of Christians from Lebanon.…

Dale Gavlak| Catholic News ServiceFILE SYRIA ATMEH CAMP Fawza Umri helps her son put on clothes after being bathed inside their tent at Atmeh camp, near the Turkish border in Syria, June 13, 2020. Humanitarian groups have accused Turkey of “weaponing water” in the northeast region of Syria. | CNS photo/Khalil Ashawi, Reuters…

Turkey’s Claw Tiger operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in northern Iraq has caused the evacuation of several Christian villages in the Dohuk province, making it impossible for the villagers to return to their homes, pro-Kurdish outlet Rudaw reported on Tuesday.…

Iran (International Christian Concern) – An Iranian-Armenian Christian house church leader, Joseph Shahbazian, was finally released on a slightly reduced bail nearly two months after his detainment. The authorities had requested a bail amount of 3 billion tomans, the highest on record for an imprisoned Christian, but the family was only able…

By Debbie Kelley debbie.The Rev. El Badaoui Habib arrived at St. Rafka Maronite Catholic Church in Lakewood in May and is now offering Maronite Rite Mass the first Sunday of every month at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Colorado Springs.…

by Dale Gavlak, Catholic News Service Fawza Umri helps her son put on clothes after being bathed inside their tent at Atmeh camp, near the Turkish border in Syria, June 13, 2020. Humanitarian groups have accused Turkey of “weaponing water” in the northeast region of Syria. (CNS/Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)…

Chalice desecrated by ISIS. Credit: Diocese of Malaga, Spain.MoreCNA Staff, Aug 28, 2020 / 06:11 pm MT (CNA).- As part of an effort to remember and pray for persecuted Christians, several churches in the Diocese of Málaga, Spain are displaying a chalice that was shot by the Islamic State.…

Promotional poster for a new documentary about Iraq produced for the BBC and PBS. (BBC/PBS/Frontline)Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda said the documentary’s failure to discuss the plight of Iraq’s persecuted minorities ‘is tantamount to showing we do not matter and…

By John Pontifex MEMBERS of an ancient Chivalric Order with close ties to the Middle East have raised more than £10,000 for the people of Beirut suffering following the catastrophic explosion.…

Ancient Christian minority faces bleak chance of reclaiming ancestral landsBen Joseph A boy looks out from a tent at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp in the al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria, where families of Islamic State foreign fighters are held. (Photo: AFP)…

CBN NewsJERUSALEM, Israel – Kurdish and Syriac news media are reporting that Turkish-backed Syrian opposition militants have kidnapped 14 Kurds who converted to Christianity from the northern Syrian city of Afrin.…

The Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil has accused the BBC of overlooking the plight of persecuted Christians and Yazidis in documentary series Once Upon a Time in Iraq. Archbishop Bashar Warda said Christians and other religious minorities felt pained at being deprived of their voice, The Times reports.…

Mor Ishok of Nineveh (613-700) In Akkadian, if ‘mak?ku’ derives from <mag?gu, it means to ‘widen’, ‘spread’, ‘grow’, ‘continue’, ‘stretch out’.If ‘Maka?u’ is accepted as the continuation of the word <maga?u’, it reflects the meanings of ‘siege’, ‘surround’, ‘enfold’, ‘enclose’ and ‘protection’. In Akkadian, the consonant ‘k’ can take the form of…

Dear sir/madam, In Nov. 2019, the World Council of Arameans (Syriacs) joined the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in supporting the reconstruction of a community center in the largely Aramean (Syriac) town of Bartella in the Nineveh Plain, North Iraq. Due to COVID19, this critically important project experienced a delay, but it is expected…

Following the horrendous explosion that hit Beirut devastating the capital and plunging its people “into darkness, blood and pain”, the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) issued a statement addressed to the churches of the world and to its partners, calling them to support the devastated Lebanese capital and its distressed people.…