Tag: ISIS
75% of Assyrians Return to Their Town in North Iraq
17/9/14 Alqosh, Iraq (AINA) -- More than 75% of the residents of Alqosh, an Assyrian town 37 miles north of Mosul, have returned to their ... Read More
Chaldean Bishop: ISIS Wants to Rip Christians From Their Roots
17/9/14 Brussels (AINA) -- Appealing to everyone to work and pray for Iraq and Syria, Bishop Shlemon Warduni, Patriarchal Assistant for the Chaldean Church, said ... Read More
ISIS Using Christian Homes in Mosul As Factories for Explosive Devices
17/9/14 (AINA) -- A number of Mosul residents have said that ISIS has turned Christians homes into factories for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and car ... Read More
Brother of Top ISIS Leader Repents : Converts to Christianity
A video of the two brothers at happier times, when Mohammed came to visit his brother in Iraq for the last time. http://worldnewsdailyreport.com - September 2014 ... Read More
ISIS Erases Syriac Culture : Christian Teachings From Schools
By Gabriel Ruiz http://www.christiantoday.com.au - September 2014 In a move to further establish the Islamic caliphate, ISIS militants have imposed the mandatory removal of all Syriac ... Read More
Some Assyrians Who Fled Their Town Say They Wish to Leave Iraq
Assyrian residents from the town of Telsqof, now living as refugees in Ankawa, Iraq, interviewed by World Council of Churches. A house in Telsqof destroyed ... Read More
Assyrian Bishop Testifies At Senate Human Rights Caucus
Bishop Mar Paulus Benjamin from the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, Chicago diocese. September 2014 Washington (AINA) -- Two U.S. Senators launched ... Read More
US House Hearing Focuses on Christian Persecution in Iraq
September 2014 (AINA) -- A hearing on the plight of Christians in Iraq and Syria was convened yesterday at the U.S. House of Representatives. The ... Read More
Eastern Churches Renew Calls to Prohibit Attacks on Christians
Daily Star, Lebanon - 9/9/14 Beirut -- Muslim religious authorities must issue religious edicts prohibiting attacks against Christians and other minorities regardless of circumstance, a ... Read More
September 6 Report on North Iraq – Forced Marriages, Conversions and Looting
September 2014 Assyrian refugees in Ankawa, Iraq.(AINA) -- The Hammurabi Human Rights Organization* has issued its latest report, dated September 6, 2014, on the situation ... Read More
ISIS Threatens Orthdox Church in Tripoli : Lebanese Army Responds
September 2014 From the Daily Star, here.See also their earlier article about anti-Christian graffiti in Tripoli here. Lebanese Army swiftly responds to Tripoli threats TRIPOLI, Lebanon: The ... Read More
Australian Parliament Calls for Protection of Assyrians in Iraq
Chris Bowen 3/9/14 Canberra (AINA) -- The Australian Federal Parliament discussed the plight of the Assyrians of Iraq on Monday after a motion was raised ... Read More
World ‘Cannot Keep Silent About the Existence of the So-called ISIS,’ Patriarchs Declare
http://www.catholic.org - 2/9/14 Meeting at the Maronite Catholic patriarchate at Bkerke, north of Beirut, Catholic and Orthodox patriarchs convened for a special summit to address the ... Read More
August 30 Report on North Iraq – Suicides, Squatters, Escapes
Assyrian refugees in Ankawa, Iraq. 31/8/2014 (AINA) -- The Hammurabi Human Rights Organization* has issued its latest report, dated August 30, 2014, on the situation ... Read More
ISIS Forced Elderly Assyrian Couple to March Out of Baghdede
Baghdede by ISIS and now sleeping on the top of floor of a mall in Arbel By Leah Sorith - 30/8/14 (AINA) -- 75 year-old Najib ... Read More
Mother of 3 Year-old Assyrian Girl Kidnapped By ISIS: ‘She Will Die If She Does Not See Me’
The mother of Christina, the 3 year-old Assyrian girl kidnapped by ISIS, shortly after arriving in Ankawa from Baghdede. Christina Khader Ebada, a 3 ... Read More
Rape and Sexual Slavery Inside an ISIS Prison
By Ford Sypher http://www.thedailybeast.com - 29/8/14 ERBIL, Iraq -- Thousands of Iraq's Yazidis, driven from their homes by ISIS and trapped in the desperate siege of ... Read More
ISIS Abduct 3 Year-old Assyrian Girl From Fleeing Family : 3 Starve to Death
Christina Khader Christian Ebada, a 3 year-old Assyrian girl, was abducted from her family by ISIS as they were leaving Baghdede George David and his ... Read More
Dutch MP Visits Assyrian Refugees in North Iraq
24/8/14 Ankawa, Iraq (AINA) -- Dutch MP Joel Voordewind visited Ankawa on Thursday to assess the state of the Assyrian refugees who fled from ISIS. ... Read More
Pictures Show Aftermath of ISIS Looting & Plundering Assyrian Town
21/8/14 (AINA) -- On August 7 Assyrians fled from their villages in the Nineveh Plain for fear of ISIS. One of these villages, Telesqof, located ... Read More
A Wedding in the Midst of the Assyrian Tragedy in Iraq
21/8/14 (AINA) -- The Islamic State (ISIS) has driven 200,000 Assyrians from their homes and villages in north Iraq. They are sleeping in open fields ... Read More