Monthly Archives: July 2020

By Uzay Bulut. (International Christian Concern) – A 71-year-old Assyrian Christian man, Hurmuz Diril, who lived in a village in southeast Turkey, has been missing since he and his wife Simoni were kidnapped on January 11.…

Sarah Rahal The Detroit NewsCorrection: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the status of Hala Jarbou’s confirmation process.President Donald Trump’s nomination of the first Chaldean American to the federal bench is headed to the Senate for consideration.…

The ” Iraqi Australasian Medical Association” is organizing a fundraising campaign to equip the “Child Protection” hospital in Baghdad with ventilation machine in support of our people in Iraq in the face of the Corona outbreak amid the terrible deterioration of the health infrastructure there.…

ANKAWA / ERBIL, Iraq – Syriac Chaldean Minister of Immigration and Displacement Mrs. Evan Faeq Jabro visited the Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian town of Ankawa, Erbil, where she visited the Cathedral of St Joseph, the seat of the Syriac Chaldean Catholic archdiocese of Erbil which is headed by Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda.…

Published by the Middle East Council of Churches The Communication and Public Relations Department of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) published a new issue of its periodic magazine, “Al-Muntada”, in July 2020, in Arabic and English. The issue focuses on two main topics: Jerusalem and the Palestinian refugees’ right of…

The country’s diversity must be protected as ISIS continues its onslaught against minority communities.Kakai men dance during Nineveh 3rd World Peace Festival in Mosul, Iraq, in September 2019. (REUTERS)Amid the global pandemic, ISIS and the havoc it still wreaks have largely fallen out of…

By Susan Korah, Op-Ed Contributor Susan Korah is a Canadian journalist based in Ottawa and a Syriac Orthodox Christian. | Photo source: twitter.com/waterlilypoolCaught between two tectonic plates, Turkey has always been the epicenter of…

Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – The Chaldean Patriarchate, led by Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, is following with concern the story of Iraqis who have been residents of the United States of America for a long time and are now being sent back to their home country because they have not yet obtained the necessary documents to…

The restored Maronite Cathedral of St. Elijah in Aleppo, Syria. (Aid to the Church in Need via CNA)A Catholic cathedral that was repeatedly struck by missiles amid the Syrian civil war was due to reopen Monday following its restoration.…

Now the Ismael children — 13, 18 and 20 — are struggling to cope withgrief, but also with how to keep a car running, pay bills, be a familyStory byJohn Woodrow CoxPhotos bySalwan Georges…

Source: fsspx.newsA report published in June 2020 by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) points to the risk of extinction of Christians in Iraq, and especially in the Nineveh Plain.If Christians are an endangered species in Iraq, it is not the fault of Covid-19, but that of…

By Timothy Head, Voices Contributor |The imposing structure of Hagia Sophia, located in Istanbul, Turkey. The building began as an Orthodox Christian cathedral, was converted to a mosque in the 15th century, and was then made into a museum in the 1930s. | (Photo: Arild Vågen/ Wikimedia Commons)…

Chorbishop Felix Dawood Al Shabi, who will take office as bishop of Zakho as soon as Covid-19 restrictions allow, discusses the challenges presented by his new mission in a strategic area of Iraqi Kurdistan.Solène Tadié…

Maria Lozano – ACNArchbishop Tobji: “The restoration of the cathedral is proof that we are still in this country. Our mouths must continue to praise God in this place.”On Monday, July 20, after many difficulties in the work of reconstruction, the Maronite…

 by Presbyterian News Service Leave a CommentLOUISVILLE — The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to worsen — much in part, many faith leaders believe, to the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act passed by Congress last fall and signed into law by President Donald Trump in December.…

By Cameron Hilditch People visit the Hagia Sophia, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 10, 2020. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)President Erdogan’s power play should not go unanswered by the liberal-democratic…

The Assyrian Democratic Organization has realized since its establishment on 15th of July 1957, as the first national political organization working among the Syriac Assyrians, that solving the issue of national diversity in Syria and to overcome the deprivation, discrimination and injustice that they have suffered from, along with other…

A stark new report from World Relief and Open Doors reveals the enormous toll President Donald Trump’s hardline refugee policy has taken on persecuted Christians. According to their analysis, the U.S. will welcome its fewest refugees since the resettlement policy was formalized in 1980. At the current rate, America will resettle…

SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty, FileBen KewA Yazidi family found what they believe are four of their elderly relatives in a mass grave in the front yard of their former home, local officials revealed this weekend.…

Comprehensively looted by IS, save the shattered remnants of sledgehammered Assyrian statues, reopening Mosul Museum is years awayA damaged artefact in Mosul Museum following the liberation of the area from the Islamic State (Reuters)By Tom Westcott…