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By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter Islamic State militants used one of northern Iraq’s largest Christian sites to imprison and abuse as many as 200 Yazidi girls and women as sex slaves, an Iraqi military official has said. (Photo: Reuters/Jala)Yazidi women targeted by ISIS in this undated photo.…

By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter (Photo: REUTERS/Rebecca Cook)Chaldean-Americans protest against the seizure of family members Sunday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a rally outside the Mother of God Chaldean church in Southfield, Michigan, U.S., June 12, 2017.…

Dozens of Metro Detroit immigrants rounded up during ICE sweeps By Derick Hutchinson A woman watches as dozens of people are detained by U.S. ICE agents June 11, 2017 in Detroit. (WDIV) DETROIT – Michigan lawmakers wrote a letter Wednesday to the Department of…

World Watch Monitor Three years since the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was taken by Islamic State militants, Iraqi government forces have been able to reclaim a large part of the city, allowing Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Baghdad Louis Raphael Sako to visit several churches and monasteries.…

Russian Politics & Diplomacy “We have called on the IICI more than once to give appropriate attention to the crimes that the militant units, including the terrorist ones, committed on the Syrian territory,” Goltiayev said GENEVA, June 14. /TASS/. Independent International Commission of Inquiry (IICI) on…

By jamey keaten, associated press FILE – In this file picture taken Friday, Jan. 20, 2017 from the balcony of the Abdul-Hamid Khatib home, people walk through mounds of rubble which used to be high rise apartment buildings in the once rebel-held Ansari neighborhood in the eastern AleThe Associated Press…

Jardine Malado (Reuters/Rebecca Cook)Chaldean-Americans protest against the seizure of family members Sunday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a rally outside the Mother of God Chaldean church in Southfield, Michigan, U.S., June 12, 2017.…

Bishop Francis Kalabat, the Chaldean Catholic bishop of the Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit, described the federal government’s immigration roundup of dozens of Detroit-area Iraqi Christians as “a very strange and painful day for our community in America.”…

Jardine Malado (Reuters/Umit Bektas/Files)Generations on, Christians fleeing Syria return to Turkish homeland they once fled February 28, 2014 07:40am EST A new report prepared by three Christian advocacy groups has estimated that about 50…

Kim Kozlowski , The Detroit News Following the arrests of dozens of local Chaldeans, community leaders were working Monday to stop an immigration crackdown that they say could send Iraqi Christians back to a country where they face persecution.…

‘In every age people have written obituary of the church and our age is no exception’ Patsy McGarry Bishop Denis Brennan is the second Catholic bishop in recent days to address the issue of increased hostility towards the church in Ireland. Photograph: Istock…

Lorraine Caballero Iraqi Christians who have fled to Kurdistan to escape the atrocities of the Islamic State in their hometowns have complained that ethnic Kurds are seizing and building on their lands, according to a new report from the United States Commission on…

By Eno Adeogun A six year old Iraqi Christian girl, kidnapped by Islamic State when she was three, has been reunited with her parents. Christina Abada, was rescued by the Iraqi Special, according to World Watch Monitor.…

Elisha Anderson and Niraj Warikoo , Detroit Free Press Dozens of Chaldeans from metro Detroit were arrested Sunday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and face possible deportation, leaders in the Chaldean community said.…

By Perry Chiaramonte Fox News Christina Abada was welcomed back by family and other well-wishers on Friday morning after she was rescued and released by Iraqi Special Forces. She was only three when she was originally abducted by ISIS from the city of Qaraqosh in 2014.…

by CNA Daily News Washington D.C., Jun 9, 2017 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Iraq’s Christians have suffered persecution for centuries, yet their faith has survived and the community will remain, provided their material needs are met, a Chaldean Catholic bishop has said.…

By JNS “He that is gracious unto the poor lendeth unto Hashem; and his good deed will He repay unto him.” Proverbs 19:17 (The Israel Bible™) Displaced Christians in cramped living conditions in Erbil, the largest city in Iraqi Kurdistan. (Photo: ACN)…

KRG Representation in Poland hosted a group of 20 students along with their academical adviser Dr Sarah Cramsey from University of California, Berkeley. They are pursuing scientific project: “Contours of Coexistence: Belonging in Modern Europe”. Within the frame of it, they are meeting minorities living in East-Central Europe and…

We must not dismiss the horrors faced by Christians and other minorities. President Trump must help them, lest another round of atrocities ensue. By Ryan Mauro President Trump pledged on the campaign trail to end the persecution of Iraqi…

Mosul, Iraq, Jun 5, 2017 CNA.- As government forces pry apart the Islamic State’s three yearlong grip on Mosul, Muslims and Christians have united to rebuild a damaged monastery. A Facebook page called “This is Christian Iraq” – dedicated to connecting Iraqi…