Monthly Archives: June 2018

Victoria Macchi FILE – Demonstrators protest President Donald Trump’s executive immigration ban at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Jan. 29, 2017. The United States is accepting an increasingly large share of Christian refugees,…

Our weekly round-up of the latest from Iraq The Iraq Report is a weekly feature at The New Arab. Muqtada al-Sadr, the winner of last month’s heavily boycotted elections, has declared formal agreements with electoral blocs represented by outgoing Prime Minister Haider…

Sinan Antoon’s acclaimed novel, now out in English, sheds light on the realities faced by Christians in Iraq. by Philip Jenkins Sinan Antoon Sinan Antoon. Photo by Ibtisam Azem. Sinan Antoon is a star of modern Arab fiction, a multiply honored novelist whose books…

By Rudaw From left: Angelo De Donatis General Vicar of Rome, Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Louis Raphael I Sako patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans addend the consistory where Pope Francis…

By: FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church 14 new cardinals Thursday, exhorting them to resist any temptation toward haughtiness and instead embrace “the greatest promotion” they could hope to obtain: tending to those neglected…

by Dario Salvi Today the Chaldean primate will receive a red hat from Pope Francis. It is a sign of “support” for the Eastern Churches and a further invitation “to dialogue and reconciliation”. The hope that “Christian schools, clinics, institutes and hospitals” may…

by Fady Noun Patriarch Sako will be created cardinal on 29 June. He appeals to Iraqi Christians who fled from the Islamic State to come back and those who remain to stay. “I never imagined that such terrible things could happen to our people,” he said. Christians must…

By Aileen Wingblad, awingblad@digitalfirstmedia.com,, @awingblad on Twitter An Oakland County judge was recently honored with the Pillar of Justice Award, given to experts in the field of law considered to be held in high esteem by their peers, and to recognize their exemplary community service.…

Gary Lane This year, The United Nations Secretary General has drawn special attention to the plight of suffering Christians and Yazidis from Iraq and Syria. “It is very important to ensure the return of the Christians, in general, to the religious minorities, and the Yazidis themselves, to their homeland,” said António Guterres…

Aid to the Church in Need, ACN, Cathedral Walks, Bridget and Caroline with Fr Philip Conner at Lancaster University Catholic Chaplaincy By: John Newton Source: ACN Staff from the North West Office of Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need are…

By Voices Contributor Bill Devlin | (Photo: Bill Devlin)Church destroyed by ISIS, Baghdida, Iraq. Imagine a city of 50,000 people that was totally destroyed — everyone left four years ago in August 2014 due to the city’s invasion of the Islamic State. Now imagine that same city being restored and rebuilt? That would be the…

By Amy Fallas On April 13, a U.S.-led coalition launched airstrikes on strategic targets in Syria. The attacks were a response to growing evidence that Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against civilians in Eastern Ghouta, a rebel stronghold east of Damascus. A…

© AFP 2018 / Jonathan NACKSTRAND “Arab devil” and “terrorist” are only some of the insults Jimmy Durmaz of the Sweden national team had to endure, as many supporters blamed the midfielder, who has Syrian roots, for Sweden’s bitter defeat to Germany during the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia.…

Lawrence Machado, Fairfield Advance Ryleigh’s big strides to success NOOR Hanteia is living his football dream, two years after arriving in Australia after fleeing war-torn Iraq with his family.…

Translator: Hassan Hegazy (Egypt) Our names carried us to the depths of unknown reproducing.. We; an idea of a certain creation formed in the womb of the hope?! We look carefully at the shadows of God that are covering the seas of senses;…

Alia Malek’s memoir on Syria addresses the upheavals the country went through, from the Ottomans to the French and after. By Adil Bhat Syria’s civil war has entered its eighth year. The future of the conflict lies in its past: the…

Pope Francis salutes as he boards the airplane for the ecumenical pilgrimage to Geneva, at the ‘Leonardo Da Vinci’ airport in Fiumicino, in the outskirts of Rome, Thursday, June 21, 2018. The visit is part of celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the World Council of Churches. (Telenews/ANSA via AP)…

Sarah Rahal The Detroit News People carry signs protesting the deportation of Iraqi-American immigrants as members of the Chaldean community rallied at the McNamara Federal building in Detroit in June 2017. Max Ortiz / Detroit News…

Iraqi Christian population has declined by one million since 2002 Christian militiamen in Telskuf, northern Iraq / Getty Images BY: Jeffrey Cimmino Vice President Mike Pence announced two weeks ago that the United States would…

Natives of El Cajon tell me downtown Main Street was entirely “trashy” before Chaldeans and other immigrants started opening up businesses. Image by Evgeny Yorobe El Cajon, ad nauseam…