Tag: Iraqi Kurdistan

ANCIENT PALACE OF BIBLICAL KING SENNACHERIB FOUND UNDER ISIS-DESTROYED TOMB OF JONAH

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- March 6, 2017

Photo: The Christian Post Pravoslavie.ru - 6/3/17 In July 2014, Islamic terrorists destroyed what both Christians and Muslims believe to have been the Tomb of ... Read More

Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Visits the President of Iraqi Kurdistan

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- June 8, 2016

Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate - June 2016 His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II visited His Excellency President of Iraqi Kurdistan Mr. Massoud Barzani at the ... Read More

Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Visits Minister of Interior in Iraqi Kurdistan Government

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- June 8, 2016

Syriac Orthodox Church - June 2016 His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II visited His Excellency Mr. Karim Sinjari, Minister of Interior at the Iraqi ... Read More

Iraqi Assyrian Bishop: ISIS Drove Us to Unity

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 28, 2016

  AINA- 28/5/16 (AINA) -- Archbishop Nicodemus Sharaf Daoud, the Syriac-Orthodox Bishop of Mosul, visited France and Belgium from May 19-24. The visit was organized ... Read More

Chaldean Patriarch: Kurdish Constitution Should Mention Christians

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 7, 2015

Fides News Agency  - May 2015 In view of the parliamentary debate on the adoption of the Constitution of the Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, ... Read More

Chaldean Patriarch overjoyed at release of nuns and children, “they are well”

OCP- July 17, 2014

17/7/14 Mar Louis Raphael I Sako delivers some "good news" in a country torn apart by war, violence and division. He explains that "contact" was ... Read More

Nineveh Province for Christians in Iraq? Let’s Wait and See

OCP- January 25, 2014

The Christian Mar Mattai monastry overlooking the Nineveh plain (Photo by Judit Neurink). By Judit Neurink http://rudaw.net - January 2014 ERBIL, Kurdistan Region -- "It is ... Read More

Iraqi Kurdistan: A Safe Haven for Christians?

OCP- January 21, 2013

  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