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The Secretary General of the Middle East Council of Churches, Dr. Souraya Bechealany took a firm stance against what has been called “the Deal of the Century”.Bechealany stressed that “the Palestinian cause is a rightful cause and addressing it through bargaining and trade-offs is unacceptable”. Bechealany…
Read morePresident Donald Trump visits Dana Incorporated, 28201 Van Dyke Ave. in Warren, Mich on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Trump visited with workers at the plant to celebrate Wednesday’s signing of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. (Jacob Hamilton/Ann Arbor News via AP) more >…
Read moreEyad Abu Shakra I am not absolutely sure how much the Iranian regime is suffering under the increasingly efficient US economic and political blockade; however, so far, I have noticed no real change in its handling of the regional scene.…
Read moreArchbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil. Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA Washington D.C., Jan (CNA).- Iraqi Christians must take an active role in the country’s future if they want a unified, multi-religious Iraq, the Archbishop of Erbil said during a discussion of the country’s future with a U.S. congressman.…
Read moreAno Jawhar Abdoka The descendants of Babylon and Assyria, the grandsons Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, Sargon, Ashurbanipal, Shamiram and AssirHadun are suffering from continuing genocide carried out by extremists under the eyes of the whole world. One of the most ancient Christian communities, the faithful of the Church of the East,…
Read moreEvangelicals in Middle East and US debate if “Deal of the Century” is “generous” or “extreme.”Jayson CasperImage: Lior Mizrahi / Getty ImagesAn Israeli flag flies in a Jordan Valley Jewish settlement on January 28, 2020 in Shadmot Mehola, West Bank.…
Read moreJerusalem, Jan 29, 2020 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- The proposed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan announced this week is “no solution,” Catholic bishops of the Holy Land said on Wednesday.…
Read moreIraqi Christians attend Christmas Eve Mass at the Syriac Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in the predominantly Iraqi Christian town of Qaraqosh, in Nineveh province some 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from Mosul, on Dec. 24, 2019. The 2020 ‘World Watch List’ report found that 87% of Christians have left Iraq since 2003.…
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Read moreKarwan Faidhi Dri ERBIL, Kurdistan Region -A Mosul-based short film on hardships in the city post-Islamic State (ISIS) liberation won a people’s choice award at a short film festival on Monday, highlighting the talents of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) and refugees in the Kurdistan Region.…
Read moreIn Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, can believers offer Shiites better support than the assassinated military leader?Jayson CasperImage: Babak Jeddi / SOPA Images / AP Images…
Read moreby Giulio MeottiThe Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria described the area as “killing fields”, like the ones the Khmer Rouge created in Cambodia to exterminate the population.“We are Aramaic people and we don’t have this right to have anyone protect us? Look…
Read moreDoreen Abi Raad CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE A Syrian refugee woman and child are seen outside a tent at a camp in Bar Elias, Lebanon, Jan. 13, 2020. During a two-day meeting of the Middle East Council of Churches in Cyprus, church leaders called attention to the “aggravating suffering of the…
Read morePARIS: Three French nationals and one Iraqi working with a French Christian charity in Iraq have been missing since Monday, the group announced Friday.The four men with SOS Chretiens d´Orient (Christians of the Middle East) went missing near the French embassy in Baghdad, the organisation´s director Benjamin Blanchard told a news conference in Paris.…
Read moreBarham Salih’s office said he and the pope discussed a papal visit to Iraq, but said only that it was ‘scheduled to be paid at a later date’ Pope Francis receiving the President of the Republic of Iraq Barham Salih during a private audience at the Vatican, 25 January 2020. EPA, HO…
Read morePope Francis meets Iraqi President Barham Salih Jan. 25, 2020. Credit: EWTN-CNA/Evandro Inetti/Vatican Pool.By Courtney MaresMoreVatican City, Jan 25, 2020 / 09:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis met Saturday with…
Read moreREUTERS On Jan. 8, Iranian forces fired missiles at two military bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops in retaliation for Washington’s killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike a Baghdad airport on Jan.…
Read moreThree Frenchmen and one Iraqi man linked to a Christian charity went missing on Monday, last seen near the French embassy in Baghdad. No ransom or claim have been made. The four are “experienced staff members who have been working with us for years,” said the charity’s director.…
Read moreJeanne Der Agopian, press relations officer of the French charity SOS Chretiens d’Orient (Christians of the Middle East), and Benjamin Blanchard, the charity’s director general, give a news conference in Paris on January 24, 2020, after four of the NGO’s members went missing in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. © Thomas Samson, AFP…
Read moreU.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopters from 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 34th Combat Aviation Brigade, conduct overflights of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 31, 2019. The helicopters launched flares as a show of presence while providing additional security and deterrence against protestors. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Khalil Jenkins, CJTF-OIR Public Affairs)…
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