Monthly Archives: January 2018

Kaplan Contributor Twenty-four members of the Council of Europe have signed a document demanding Turkey release an American Christian pastor who has been imprisoned without charges for more than a year. The written declaration calls out Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for using…

A Syrian Kurdish woman walks in a street in the Kurdish enclave of Afrin on January 30, 2018. The word next to her is “our homeland.” Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP AFRIN – On the 11th day of ‘struggle and resistance’ by the canton of Afrin and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Brusk Hasaka, SDF spokesman,…

Tito Edwards Turkey’s Invasion of Syria Threatens Christians, Will We Speak Up? – Jason Scott Jones, The Stream Pursued by Guadalupe: A Call to Share the Sacred Heart – Sarah Carey, Catholic Stand George Washington & the Divine Author of Our Blessed Religion – Donald R. McClarey…

Source: Center for Human Rights in Iran Judge Ahmadzadeh Has Sentenced 16 Christians to Prison In Less Than A Year Shamiram Isavi, the wife of Victor Bet Tamraz, who formerly led Iran’s Assyrian Pentecostal Church, has been sentenced to five years in prison.…

By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter | (Photo: Reuters/Raheb Homavandi)Christians in Iran. The wife of the former Assyrian Pentecostal Church leader in Iran has been sentenced to five years in prison, allegedly for endangering national security. But human rights advocates have said she is being punished for praying with other Christians.…

By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter (Photo: Iraqi Christian Relief Council)Assyrian activist Juliana Taimoorazy of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council meets with Iraqi Christian refugees in Amman, Jordan, during a trip there in January 2018. The organization distributed over 2,400 buckets of food to refugees in Jordan and Iraq.…

By Samuel Smith , CP Reporter (Photo: REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily)Displaced Iraqi children are seen at the Amriyat al Fallujah camp in Anbar Province, Iraq January 3, 2018. Thousands of Iraqi Christians who fled their homes in fear of being killed by the Islamic…

Judge Ahmadzadeh Has Sentenced 16 Christians to Prison In Less Than A Year Shamiram Isavi, the wife of Victor Bet Tamraz, who formerly led Iran’s Assyrian Pentecostal Church, has been sentenced to five years in prison. “As far as we know, and based on Mrs. Isavi’s own statements, no evidence has been…

Mustafa Saadoun Iraqi migrants Ibrahim, his wife, Ashty, their children, Mandy (L) and Muhammad (R), pose outside their caravan in the “New Jungle” makeshift camp as unseasonably cool temperatures arrive in Calais, northern France, Oct. 15, 2015.…

Cities at war Part one – the rise: It was in the Iraqi city of Mosul that Isis attempted to prove its legitimacy – by transforming from an insurgency into a state. Alongside the murders and mass terror ran a functioning bureaucracy, with streamlined rubbish collections and electricity smart meters…

By Rosanna Xia and Hailey Branson-Potts Volunteers clean up damage caused by a small fire inside the Church of the Angels in Pasadena earlier this month. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) A 25-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a series of arson and…

DAILY SABAH Istanbul police detained nine suspects who were trying to smuggle ancient Sumerian jewelry dating back 3,500-years, Assyrian and Akkadian seals, as well as Ottoman and Seljuk artifacts illegally obtained from the PKK-linked Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Daesh-controlled land in Syria and Iraq and use the proceedings for the PYD terrorist group, reports…

Çetin Ayd?n – ISTANBUL Istanbul police have seized invaluable archeological artifacts smuggled from areas under the control of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria into Turkey. The smugglers reportedly planned to sell the objects abroad and send the revenue to the PYD.…

A newborn child rescued from a sentence of death in northern Iraq. Credit: Aid to the Church in Need Mosul, Iraq, Jan 24, 2018 / 12:59 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A newborn baby was sentenced to death after Iraqi tribal leaders discovered it had been conceived in rape…

Translation: Rivan hakim The Iraqi representative of the Christian component, Joseph Saliwa, revealed to “Al-Arabi Aljadeed” what he called the serious attempts to change the demography in the areas of Christians, Chaldeans, Assyrians and Syrians in the Nineveh Plain. He…

By Murcadha O Flaherty and John Newton Church leaders across Syria have spoken about the faithful’s suffering following military bombardments in a number of the country’s regions. In an update received by Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Maronite…

By Clarion Project Iraqi children in the Nineveh Province wave to troops liberating them from ISIS. (Photo: Akram Saleh /Getty Images) The U.S. has earmarked $55 million to help Christians and other religious and ethnic minority communities rebuild their lives in the Nineveh Province in Iraq. Minorities in the…

Christians and Yazidis in the Syrian city of Afrin are asking for international assistance as Turkish warplanes and artillery hammer Kurdish positions around the city and Turkish ground forces roll across the border. reports that a prayer service was held at the Ra’i Salih Church in Afrin for civilians…

Chris Boulous New school: His Beatitude Mar Meelis Zaia and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian attended the official opening of the St Narsai Assyrian Christian College on Sunday. After more than 10 years of temporary facilities, St Narsai Assyrian Christian College…

Syria, Afrin, Kurdistan, Open Doors Afrin – Wiki image Bertramz The city of Afrin in northern Syria is under attack by the Turkish military and its allies. A church in Afrin has issued a plea for protection from the international community. The Church of the Good Shepherd, one of the local churches in the Afrin,…