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BY Lyndsey Koh Iraq (MNN) — The Borgen Project reports that in the last three years, over 3.4 million people in Iraq have become internally displaced. When you’re living in an IDP camp, multiple unique challenges arise. And some of the biggest challenges? Medical needs. Mobile medical clinic making its way to refugees across northern…
Read moreRuth K’lama Egypt (MNN) — A propaganda video has surfaced in Egypt, vowing to eradicate Egypt’s Coptic Christians. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has already released the identity of the man behind the threat, 22-year-old student Mahmoud Shafik, also going under the name Abu Abdallah al-Masri. Is this a warning from ISIS? (Image courtesy SAT-7)…
Read moreBy Rudaw TEL KAIF, Iraq — A Christian woman along with her ailing husband was allowed to stay in their hometown of Tel Kaif under ISIS rule for two years. Rudaw reporters spoke with her on Wednesday, when she recounted her time spent under ISIS. “I was standing here when they [ISIS] first came. ‘Are…
Read moreRikar Hussein An Iraqi Christian who lives in Lebanon holds a placard during a sit-in, in front of the United Nations Headquarters demanding speeding up their immigration cases in Beirut, Lebanon, Feb. 13, 2017. Hind Safaa has returned to her hometown of Qaraqosh in northern Iraq after Islamic…
Read moreCatholic News Agency Cross erected in Telekuf-Tesqopa, Iraq. (Credit: Patriarchate of Babylon.) A giant cross was erected on a hill near Mosul to mark the return of Christian faith in the territories reclaimed after being liberated from ISIS. The Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Baghdad blessed the cross amid cries of “Victory! Victory! Victory!” Muslims have…
Read moreBy AFP Yacoub Shaheen, the 23-year-old son of a Syriac Christian carpenter, on Saturday night won the pan-Arab singing competition, defeating a fellow Palestinian and a Yemeni in the finals filmed in Lebanon. Joseph Shahin, the father of Arab Idol contestant Yaacoub Shahin, celebrates his son’s…
Read moreThe Syriac-Palestinian grew up in Bethlehem and is part of a small community of Assyrians. (MBC) Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Sunday, 26 February 2017 Palestinian contestant Yacoub Shaheen has been crowned the fourth Arab Idol as millions tuned in to watch him compete against fellow compatriot Amir Dandan and…
Read moreBy LORI HINNANT Associated PARIS (AP) — For the roomful of archaeologists, scholars and Iraqi cultural officials on Friday, each neighborhood conquered in Mosul brought them one step closer to learning the fate of the ancient sites and artifacts seized by the Islamic State group.…
Read moreThe cross in Telekuf-Tesqopa, near Mosul, Iraq. (Patriarchate of Babylon via CNA) The Chaldean Catholic patriarch of Baghdad blessed the large cross and participated in the celebration of the first Mass after two and a half years. CNA/EWTN News…
Read moreSydney – Thursday 23 / February 6766-2017 The Assyrian Universal Alliance Australia Chapter (AUA) welcomed on February 21, 2017 at their Centre in Wetherill Park a delegation of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM), headed by Mr. Ninab Yousif, member of the ADM Political Bureau…
Read more© AP Photo/ Seivan Selim The Kurdistan Regional Government Representative to the United States Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman said that KRG was not opposed to autonomous areas for Iraq’s Yazidi and Christian minorities. Members of the Yazidi minority search for clues on February 3, 2015, that might lead…
Read moreThousands supporters marched along Harbor Drive during March in Solidarity with Immigrants, San Diego, which began at the San Diego County Administration Center and ended at Civic Center Plaza next SAN DIEGO CA: FEBRUARY 18, 2017 Thousands of supporters marched along…
Read moreCharles E. Ramirez, The Detroit (Photo: Detroit News file) A dozen Michigan organizations that serve refugees are scheduled to meet at 11:30 a.m. Thursday to show their support for exiles and discuss developing a plan to help them.…
Read moreby Max Douglas • ChurchMilitant.com “Coming to America is not a right but a privilege” SAN DIEGO (ChurchMilitant.com) – A California Chaldean Bishop is speaking in favor of President Donald Trump’s temporary immigration ban from seven Muslim-majority countries.…
Read moreBudapestSyriac Patriarch Prime Minister Viktor Orbán welcomed the head of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, for a working lunch in Budapest. Their talks focussed on helping Mideastern Christians stay in their homeland and facilitating their return to…
Read moreNiraj Warikoo , Detroit Free Press (Photo: Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press) A new mosque is to be built in Sterling Heights after the city reached an agreement Wednesday with the U.S. Department of Justice and the American Islamic Community Center, which had sued the city after it had rejected their plans.…
Read moreThe head of the Iraqi-based Chaldean Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See, has called upon the faithful to offer their Lenten prayer and fasting for peace. The Chaldean church’s season of Lent begins on February 26.…
Read moreBishop of Zakho and Amedi Rabban al-Qas has paid a few-days visit in Poland. His stay has abounded in many interesting meetings and interviews. KRG Representation in Poland, as well as Polish priest Dariusz Smolenski have supported bishop in organization of this visit.…
Read moreBy Murcadha O Flaherty FRIENDS and staff of a leading Catholic charity’s UK office are running the Fitbit Semi de Paris this March, joining European and Latin American colleagues, raising funds for persecuted Christians in the Middle East. ACN’s UK runners of the half-marathon on the 5th March will include Neville Kyrke-…
Read moreBy Rev. Johnnie Moore White House may recognize Christian genocide by ISIS This weekend, ISIS released a video calling for the full elimination of Christianity in Egypt. The star of the video was the alleged perpetrator of December’s terrorist bombing within the complex of Egypt’s most important Coptic church, for Christian…
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