Tag: Iraqi Christians
ISIS Making Good on Promise to Kill Christians
By Jennifer Jensen http://www.10news.com - 22/7/14 SAN DIEGO -- The radical Islamic group ISIS is making good on its threats to kill Iraqi Christians who refuse ... Read More
A Bishop’s Perspective: The Cry of Christians in Iraq
Mar Louis Raphael Sako By Bishop Edward J. Burns http://juneauempire.com July 2014 This past June 15 was the first time in at least 1,600 years ... Read More
Iraqi Christians Flee Homes Amid Militant Push
17/6/14 ALQOSH, Iraq (AP) -- Over the past decade, Iraqi Christians have fled repeatedly to this ancient mountainside village, seeking refuge from violence, then returning ... Read More
Iraqi Christians Feel ‘Forgotten’ Amid Violence
By Ava Thomas http://www.brnow.org 15/2/14 BAGHDAD -- When Don Alan* thinks of Iraq, he thinks of friends who sit trembling in their walled neighborhoods, afraid to ... Read More
A persecuted people face life in exile
Matteo Fagotto The Australian - 28/12/13 "THEY held me captive for five days, without food nor water, constantly beating me. One day I heard them ... Read More
Iraqi Kurdistan: A Safe Haven for Christians?
21/1/13 Alan Wisdom www.theird.com Iraq's Christian population has been the target of violence for several years. The Christian community in Iraq has suffered great ... Read More
Islamisation tramples faith
12/4/2012 ED WEST From: The Australian THE Arabs once had a saying about the British: "Better to be their enemy, for that way they will ... Read More
Why we all should defend Christianity in the Middle East?
By Dr Amer Al Sabaileh 3/4/2012 Although not a Christian myself, I feel that no one can doubt the important role of the “Christians of ... Read More
Iraqi Christians Still in Danger, Feel Neglected By Al-Maliki Government
By Luiza Oleszczuk Christian Post 30/3/2012 The year 2011 did not bring respite for Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq as hundreds of thousands ... Read More
Iraqi Christians resettled in Canada look forward to quiet Christmas
By Catholic News Service 16/12/2011 EDMONTON, Alberta – Iraqi Ziyad Matti and his wife, Dalia Hikmat, have not had a proper Christmas in years. They ... Read More
Inside Embattled Syria: More Hostility Towards Christians
6/12/2011 Contact: Jerry Dykstra, Open Doors USA, 616-915-4117, jerryd@odusa.org SANTA ANA, Calif., Dec. 6, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- While much of the world's attention is ... Read More
The Halloween Horror: One Year Since Baghdad Cathedral Attack
2/11/2011 The Anniversary: I scanned the congregation from my seat at the altar of the little church in Paris, Notre Dame de Chaldée. Their faces ... Read More
Iraq: Islamic Radicals Bomb Christian Church In Kirkuk
15/8/2011 Kirkuk (AsiaNews) – A bomb exploded last night near the St Ephraim Syrian Orthodox Church in Kirkuk, which is just a few hundreds of ... Read More
Pope calls off ordination anniversary in solidarity with Iraqi Christians, sources Say
14/11/2010 Head of the Egyptian Coptic Church Pope Shenouda III leader will cancel his 39th ordination anniversary celebration in a move to demonstrate solidarity with ... Read More
Church leader urges Iraqi Christians to quit Country
7/11/2010 A senior Iraqi Christian is to call on believers to quit the country, after gunmen targeted a church in Baghdad. Archbishop Athanasios Dawood, who ... Read More
Iraqi Christians mourning 52 Victims
2/11/2010 By: Khalil Murshadi, Agence France-Presse, with files from The Daily Telegraph BAGHDAD - Grieving Christians in Baghdad marked All Saints Day in mourning yesterday ... Read More