Monthly Archives: September 2015

Detained for 6 months while criminal illegals allowed to stay Leo Hohmann is a news editor for WND. He has been a reporter and editor at several suburban newspapers in the Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, areas and also served as managing editor of Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh, North Carolina.…

by Mary Chastain Patriarch Louis Sako, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, is the latest Christian leader to ask Christians in the Middle East not to abandon their homelands despite threats from radical Islamic groups. He also slammed the countries who give preferential treatment to Christian refugees.…

By Paul Iddon 11 hours ago Earlier this month Germany said that it expected 800,000 refugees to arrive in that country by the end of the year and that it could take in an additional 500,000 per year if need be. Very substantial figures. Hence many articles and assessments on how this influx of…

Written by Warren Mass U.S. Legislators and Public Highlight Persecution of Middle East Christians As the Christian population of several countries in the Middle East continues to dwindle owing to persecution, several members of Congress, led by Representative Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) introduced a resolution on September 9 stating that those who…

By Oretha Winston, Lead Editor Middle East Church Source: JOSEPH EID / Getty Images Christanity is not dead in the middle east. One place that is showing this is Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Pew Research Center numbers…

Patriarch Sako says Western countries should not give Christians refugees priority, criticizes priests who have left John Burger The new patriarch of the Iraq-based Chaldean Church, Louis Sako greets people as he arrives for a ceremony marking his return to Iraq from the Vatican, on February 7, 2013…

JENNINE KHALIK The Australian Sydney Assyrian Resource Centre director Carmen Lazar, left. ‘My concern is to get the right people into the country.’ Picture: Britta Campion Hundreds of frantic people crowded the Assyrian Resource Centre in Sydney’s west…

MARD?N – Do?an News Agency DHA Photos Syriacs living in the southeastern town of Midyat have commemorated a Muslim cleric who saved a large number of Christians in 1915 through a church service. Around 200 people, mostly Syriacs living in the southeastern province of Mardin’s Midyat district, commemorated Muslim Sheikh Fethullah Hamidi – the Muslim…

Christians fleeing Muslim persecution are an obvious target Daniel Greenfield While Western leftists demanding that Europe admit all the Syrian Muslims the UN can dump on them, their first victims will be real refugees. Christian refugees from the Middle East.…

The Australian Government has finally announced that it will increase its humanitarian intake by 12,000 places in the wake of the Syrian crisis. Amid the cacophony over which refugees are most in need of refuge, and the unhelpful ‘Muslim versus Christian’ discourse, there is a community that has been largely forgotten.…

“I’m not here serving my country — I’m here serving Christians,” says former U.S. soldier Brett Felton, who returned to Iraq to train Christians how to defend themselves from ISIS This past winter, a 60 Minutes team traveling through Iraq stumbled on a 28-year-old American man in Bakufa, an abandoned Christian village north of Mosul.…

On August 23, 2015, a letter to His Holiness Pope Francis and to the Middle East church hierarchy, under the heading “Divided We Fall–What Next?,” was sent to the heads of the Middle East Christian churches in the Middle East and around the world (see attached). Many of the Middle East church leaders have responded…

His Holiness Pope Francis August 5, 2015 Apostolic Palace 00120 Vatican City The time has come for His Holiness Pope Francis to hold an extraordinary emergency meeting in The Vatican with invitees from all the Middle East heads of Christian communities–church a and laity–along with the foreign ministers of the United States of…

By Jean Guerrero An immigration judge ordered the deportation of 22 Iraqi Christians, or Chaldeans, who were at an Otay Mesa detention facility, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Seven of those have already been removed. They’re among 27 Chaldeans who had…

Leader says West must stop Syrian and Iraq wars so refugees can stay home By Deborah Gyapong OTTAWA (CCN) Caption: Archbishop Ignatius Joseph III Younan, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East…

There’s been a lot of talk about Islamic State’s persecution of Christians. But here are some of the other minorities that are suffering. Iraqi Yazidi men after being released from IS internment. Photo: Getty As Australia decides upon criteria for the 12,000 Syrian asylum seekers, Prime Minister…

By: Randy Wimbley he Sterling Heights Planning Commission voted 9-0 unanimously to deny the building of a new mosque. The proposed mosque would have been built at 15 Mile Road near Mound. Muslims denied a mosque in Sterling Heights, it’s been a point of contention in the city for a while.…

by Fr. Benedict Kiely For more than a year, 120,000 Christians from the Nineveh Plain in Iraq, driven from their ancient towns and villages often with just the clothes on their backs, have languished in camps in and around the Kurdish capital of Erbil.…

Arab-Chaldean relations have reached a critical point. Repeated attempts by some Chaldeans to attack, smear and ridicule Arab and Muslim Americans can no longer be tolerated. This rising bigotry should be addressed with reason and dialogue within and between both communities. Members of the Chaldean community took turns trying to convince Sterling Heights city…

By Leah Marieann Klett (news@gospelherald.com) As many as two-thirds of the Iraqi Assyrian population have fled from the ISIS expansion over the past year. A group of 230 Assyrian Christians taken captive by Islamic State terrorists in February…