Iraqi Catholics flock to churches amid heavy security to celebrate Easter
By DIAA HADID | Associated Press A worshipper reaches to touch a crucifix during Easter mass at Virgin Mary Chaldean Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday,…
Read moreBy DIAA HADID | Associated Press A worshipper reaches to touch a crucifix during Easter mass at Virgin Mary Chaldean Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday,…
Read moreMARD?N – Do?an News Agency Roth also visited the Syriac Monastry of Mor Gabriel and met with Metropolitan Samuel Akta?. AA photo…
Read moreBy Daniel Peterson One of the oldest rituals in Christendom is enacted each year at the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, the traditional site of…
Read moreSebastian Meyer/FTWP – In the evening, snowy mountains soar above the city of Halabja on January 21, 2011 in…
Read moreHakmat Yalda and his wife came to the U.S. to escape the war in Iraq- and received a lottery check of $1 million on the…
Read moreHundreds of Assyrians and Armenians defied the cold weather in Stockholm on Wednesday morning as they gathered…
Read moreTurkish Red Crescent Aid Society delivers 9 tonnes of food aid to Assyrian Orthodox Deputy Patriarch Cetin…
Read moreA handout released by the Prime Minister’s Office shows Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki, left, speaking during the…
Read moreby Joseph Mahmoud Developed in four points, the document was presented to Prime Minister al-Maliki and President of the Parliament.…
Read moreISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News Vercihan Ziflio?lu Vercihan Ziflio?lu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr Following Culture and Tourism Minister Ömer Çelik’s call for the return of Syriacs to Turkey,…
Read moreChristian worshipper lights a candle in the Church of the Nativity, the alleged birth place of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank…
Read moreBy John Pontifex and Oliver Maksan Damascus bomb blast shows “nobody is safe any more” – Archbishop…
Read moreYou may not hear much about it, but ethno-religious cleansing in Iraq has not ceased. By Juliana Taimoorazy…
Read moreParty Tickets Sold: Ashtar Food Market, 4720 W. Oakton – Skokie…
Read moreIRAQ – VATICAN Mar Louis Raphael I Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Church, extends an invitation to the pontiff when the two met this…
Read moreAssyrian Queen Sofia Yonan enters the Dennis Earl Elementary school cafeteria during a special assembly in honor of the Assyrian New Year on Friday.…
Read moreCWN – Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako has invited Pope Francis to visit Iraq, and reports that the Pontiff responded positively to the idea.…
Read moreBy Deacon Greg Kandra As Saint Francis travelled to the East where he met Sultan Malik al-Kamil, so we hope Pope Francis “may come to Iraq…
Read moreTurkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (L) shakes hands with Archbishop Nourhan Manougian, Patriarchal Vicar of the…
Read more‘The number of Christians has fallen from about 1,400,000 in 2003 to nearly half a million now’…
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