Tag: ISIS
International Scholars Issue Joint Statement on ISIS in Iraq
20/8/14 (AINA) -- The following statement was issued by a group of international scholars. It addresses the the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and its ... Read More
Mosul’s Christians Recount Flight From Historic Home Under ISIS Threat
Aws, a 10-year-old Iraqi Christian boy, has spent much of his young life fleeing jihadists. Munira Aziz, 74,pictured behind him, considers herself fortunate to have ... Read More
Assyrian Minister in Kurdish Government Resigns in Protest
17/8/14 (AINA) -- The Minister of Transportation for the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in North Iraq, Johnson Siawesh, has tendered his resignation to protest the ... Read More
ISIS Committing Genocide Against Christians – Video Report
By Seraphim Danckaert in This Week in Orthodoxy - August 2014 Welcome to “This Week in Orthodoxy,” the world’s only online video newscast focused on events in the life ... Read More
OCP Secretariat : Expulsion of Christians & other Minorities from Iraq is a serious threat to humanity & the culture of religious co-existence
OCP News Service - 13/8/14 Global: The Secretariat of the Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society stated that the expulsion of Christians and other minority religious groups ... Read More
The Dangers Of ISIS And Its Progeny Pose To Regional And Global Peace
Washington, D.C. 8/11/2014 The American Center for Law and Justice (ACJL) recently published a paper entitled 'The Dangers Of ISIS And Its Progeny Pose To ... Read More
Genocide In Our Time: The Tragedy Facing Iraq’s Assyrians and Other Minorities
By Benjamin Abajian http://benabajian.wordpress.com/ - 11/814 Approximately three years ago while employed as a security supervisor for the Sherman Oaks Galleria in Sherman Oaks, CA ... Read More
ISIS Genocide: Iraq Terror Group Beheads Christians, Displaces Hundreds Of Thousands
The Inquisitr News - 10/8/14 ISIS persecution of Christians in Iraq amounts to genocide, religious leader are claiming as the terror group captured Iraq’s largest Christian ... Read More
Assyrian Refugees From Nineveh Plain in Desperate Need
10/8/14 (AINA) -- The massive exodus of nearly 200,000 Assyrians from the Nineveh plain (AINA 2014-08-07), caused by the Islamic State's (ISIS) capture of several ... Read More
ISIS EMPTIES NINEVEH PLAINS – 200,000 ARAMEAN CHRISTIANS FLED
9/8/14 “How many more crimes against humanity does the world wants to see before it finally speaks up? Where are the conscience and the sense ... Read More
Assyrians Commemorate Martyrs Day
(AINA) -- Assyrians throughout the world commemorated Assyrian Martyrs Day yesterday, August 7, remembering their martyrs from the past and the new ones from the ... Read More
‘It’s Genocide,’ Iraqi Orthodox Bishop Says of ISIS Attacks on Christians – Video
Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Nikodimos Daoud of Mosul 8/8/14 http://www.aleteia.org The bishop repeated the phrase, so as not to leave any doubt. "It's genocide, ethnic cleansing." ... Read More
For Iraq’s Assyrians – the Second Holocaust
By Anoo Abdoka http://www.kurdishglobe.net - 4/8/14 Before more than seven decades from our days, Today a new and advanced version of Hitler is risen and his ... Read More
Assyrians Demonstrate Worldwide Against ISIS Persecution
3/8/14 (AINA) -- Thousands of Assyrians held demonstration in major world cities today to support the Assyrians Christians of Mosul, who have been completely driven ... Read More
All 45 Christian Institutions in Mosul Destroyed or Occupied By ISIS
30/7/14 (AINA) -- Since taking over Mosul on June 10, ISIS has destroyed, occupied, converted to mosques, converted to ISIS headquarters or shuttered all 45 ... Read More
Mosul’s Christians ask, ‘Where is the conscience of the world?
Iraqi Christians who fled the violence in the northern city of Mosul pray at a church in the village of Qaraqosh on July 19. ... Read More
Last Christians Expelled From Mosul, is All of the Middle East Next?
This symbol is the letter "N" in Arabic, and ISIS painted it on Christian homes in Mosul to identify the homes as "Nazarene" (Christian). ... Read More
The Situation is Dire for All Groups’ Patriarch Sako Says About Iraq
Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako http://en.radiovaticana.va - 27/7/14 Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako says the situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate quickly. He said the country ... Read More
Christendom and the World Fail Iraqi Christians
By Rajat Ghai http://www.business-standard.com - 26/7/14 Even as world attention is riveted to the ongoing war between Israel and Gaza, not far to the east, another ... Read More
Christians Fleeing Mosul Persecuted By ISIS, Muslims Rally Alongside Protesting Christians
By Alroy Menezes http://www.ibtimes.com - 25/7/14 The plight of Christians and other minority groups in northern Iraq has taken a turn for the worse, according to ... Read More
Purged By ISIS, Iraq’s Christians Appeal to World for Help
Fox News - 25/7/14 Iraqi Christians are begging for help from the civilized world after Mosul, the northern city where they have lived and worshiped for ... Read More