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India (International Christian Concern) – According to UCA News, a newly released report by Persecution Relief describes Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh as the most dangerous states for India’s Christians. The report goes on to document the continued escalation of Christian persecution across India. Continue reading
A religious procession takes place in Qaraqosh, Iraq. Father Andrzej Halemba, shown at front right holding the crucifix, is the Middle East head of Aid to the Church in Need; the aid organization says the situation is dire for Iraqi Christians. (Courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need) Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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Correction: 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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
By Susan Korah, Op-Ed Contributor
Susan Korah is a Canadian journalist based in Ottawa and a Syriac Orthodox Christian. | Photo source: twitter.com/waterlilypool
Caught between two tectonic plates, Turkey has always been the epicenter of Continue reading
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 obtain US citizenship, Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Now the Ismael children — 13, 18 and 20 — are struggling to cope with
grief, but also with how to keep a car running, pay bills, be a family
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A 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 Continue reading
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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) Continue reading
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.
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Archbishop 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 Continue reading
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LOUISVILLE — 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. Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading