Tag: Iraq
CHRISTIAN MONKS, STUDENTS REFUSE TO FLEE 4TH-CENTURY MONASTERY NEAR ISIS-CONTROLLED MOSUL; ‘GOD PROTECTS US’
The Christian Post- June 2015 Three monks and six students have taken refuge in the ancient monastery of Mar Mattai in northern Iraq, just 12 ... Read More
Islamic militants announce plan to transform Mosul church into mosque
June 2015 - Pravmir One of the largest churches in Mosul, Iraq, will be transformed into a mosque. According to Fides, the news agency of the ... Read More
Annual Clergy Conference at held at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
June 2015 On June 3, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians presided over the annual clergy conference of the Diocese ... Read More
Holy Council of the Assyrian Church of the East begins Process to elect new Catholicos-Patriarch
June 2015 The holy Council of Prelates of the Assyrian Church of the East, presided by His Beatitude Mar Aprem, Metropolitan of All India and ... Read More
ISIS threatens ancient monastery filled with Christians
LEO HOHMANN - WND.com A 1,650-year-old monastery in northern Iraq, one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world, is in danger of falling to ISIS. ... Read More
I.A.O. STATEMENT ON THE ANCIENT TOWN OF PALMYRA AT RISK OF DESTRUCTION
May-June 2015- Athens The civilized world is following with horror and abhorrence the events in Palmyra. Massacres of innocent citizens, enslavement of elderly people and children, ... Read More
Swedish Christian Journal Världen idag & Newspaper Dagen reports on Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II & the Crisis in Middle East
June 2015 - Fb Page of Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Read the Article here: Also Read Interview by Swedish Newspaper Dagen here: English translation of the ... Read More
Indicted Assyrian Attorney Faces Trial
Attorney Robert DeKelaita, who has been indicted for immigration fraud, will stand trial on May 19. May 2015 Chicago (AINA) -- Hundreds of supporters are ... Read More
The Lives of Assyrian Christians – Can We Imagine?
http://a.abcnews.com/ By Sargis Sangari http://www.assistnews.net ISIS' claim of responsibility for the shooting in Garland, Texas, was proof of its ability to capitalize on terrorist sympathizers ... Read More
What Will It Take to Return Christians to Their Homeland in Iraq?
http://www.operationworld.org/ By John Burger http://www.aleteia.org - 5/5/15 The Iraqi Interior Ministry has announced the creation of a joint task force to start military operations aimed at ... Read More
Chaldean Patriarch: State Secularism and Religious Freedom Answer to Fundamentalist Barbarism
By Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako - 1/5/15 Baghdad -- Chaldean Patriarch Mar Louis Raphael I Sako has just returned home from Beirut (Lebanon), where ... Read More
Teaching People to Commit Genocide
22/4/15 (AINA) -- The United Nations often pays lip service to the need to stop educational instruction that could motivate genocidal attacks on national or ... Read More
Assyrians, Isis, and Kelecha — Celebrating Easter in Iraq
Assyrian women preparing Keleche, a traditional Assyrian pastry. By Erin Wilson http://www.preemptivelove.org - April 2015 Floury hands move quickly, mixing ingredients, kneading rough pastry into smooth ... Read More
Assyrians Usher in Year 6765 With Trepidation
Assyrians celebrate year 6765 at the Assyrian new year celebration in Fairfield, Australia. 2/4/15 (AINA) -- Assyrians throughout the world ushered in the 6765th year ... Read More
Chaldean Patriarch Addresses UN Security Council on Persecution of Christians
28/3/15 (AINA) -- Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, the Patriarch of the Chaldean Church of Babylon, addressed the United Nations Security Council today on the persecution ... Read More
“Don’t Cry, Sandra” — Immortal Words of Faith and Hope From an Assyrian Refugee Girl
Best friends Miriam and Sandra, two Assyrians girls from Baghdede (Qarawosh), Iraq, who were separated when their families fled from ISIS. Peter BetBasoo - 26/3/15 ... Read More
Mor Mattai Dayaro ( St.Mathew Monastery) of Syriac Orthodox Church Threatened By ISIS
25/3/15 Also Read - 60 Minutes feature ISIS Persecution of Christians in Iraq The historic Syriac Orthodox monastery in Iraq, where the monks still pray ... Read More
ISIL Militants Blow Up 10 Assyrian Homes in Northern Iraq
http://www.presstv.ir - 25/3/15 Members of the ISIL Takfiri militant group have blown up 10 houses belonging to Christian residents in Iraq's beleaguered northern province of Nineveh, ... Read More
Outbreak of Chicken Pox, Lice and Scabies in Assyrian Refugee Camp in Arbel
Ankawa Mall, an uncompleted building in Ankawa, Iraq, now housing nearly 1,800 Assyrian refugees. 24/3/15 (AINA) -- Eight months after ISIS drove nearly 200,000 Assyrians ... Read More
60 Minutes feature ISIS Persecution of Christians in Iraq
St Mathew;'s Monastery 23/3/15 Read Full Article HERE: "They take everything from us, but they cannot take the God from our hearts, they cannot."-Archbishop Nicodemus Sharaf ... Read More
France Opening Its Doors to Persecuted Christians From Middle-East
http://www.mapsofworld.com/ Simone Poissiron http://cubiclane.com - 23/3/15 France has granted more than 1500 asylum visas to Middle Eastern Christians since late July, when the government announced its ... Read More