Monthly Archives: November 2020

Turkey’s Demographic Games Come to the Caucasus

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 The Armenian Mirror-Spectator By Michael Rubin President of Turkey Erdogan (photo Mikhail Palinchak, Wikimedia Commons, 2019)ARMENIA & KARABAKHDEMOGRAPHYJIHADISTSKARABAKH WAR 2020SYRIAN MERCENARIESTurkey’s Demographic Games Come to the Caucasus…

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Online Syriac School

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+ The Syriac School is an online school that teaches the Syriac language in an academic manner, using a set of distance education tools via the internet.+ The learner learns to read, write and speak through a curriculum based on two levels, beginner and intermediate, according to the Common European Framework of…

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Christian volunteers help Muslim refugees near Mosul

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The initiative is titled ‘Let’s build bridges of peace and tear down the walls of hatred’, and is one of many activities planned for Christmas. Clothing and basic necessities were delivered to the Khazir camp, just outside Mosul. For a Chaldean priest, acts of solidarity represent a “light” of living together at the end of…

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Nightmare over but Iraqi Christians still dream of leaving

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Worshippers leave after Mass at St. Joseph’s Chaldean Cathedral in the Iraqi capital Baghdad Sabah ARAR AFPThe bells of St. Joseph’s Chaldean Cathedral echo across Baghdad, signalling the start of Mass for the dwindling congregation that has stayed in the scarred Iraqi capital…

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Christians in Syria face poverty and continued violence

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Delil SOULEIMAN | AFP Maria Lozano – ACN – Aid to the Church in Need interviews Chaldean Bishop Antoine Audo, S.J. of Aleppo.In an interview with Aid to the Church in Need, Chaldean Bishop Antoine Audo, S.J. of Aleppo, Syria, discusses the situation in his country…

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ACN funds COVID-19 oxygen machine

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By John Pontifex AN oxygen machine is to be despatched to COVID-hit northern Iraq after a leading Catholic charity agreed to fund the project. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) approved the €55,000 (£49,360) oxygen generator system, which will be installed in Maryamana Catholic Hospital, in Erbil, the capital of semi-autonomous Kurdistan.…

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100 days on, the rebuild begins

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By Fionn Shiner ONE HUNDRED days after the explosion in Beirut on 4th August, a leading Catholic charity has revealed details of its aid programme which will enable church bells to ring again across the Lebanese capital.…

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Syrian refugee bakes for church afternoon tea delivery in Newtown

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By Rory SheehanAN AFTERNOON tea delivery to vulnerable and lonely people and families living in Newtown is including a traditional Syrian cake, thanks to the baking of a refugee family.Hind Al Balkhi, who moved to Newtown with her family four years ago, has become a friend of All Saints Church. She now volunteers alongside others from…

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