Tag: ISIS

International Scholars Issue Joint Statement on ISIS in Iraq

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 20, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 20, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 17, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 16, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 13, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 13, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 11, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 10, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 10, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 9, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 9, 2014

(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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 8, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 4, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 3, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- July 30, 2014

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?

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- July 28, 2014

  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?

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- July 28, 2014

  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

OCP- July 27, 2014

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

OCP- July 26, 2014

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

OCP- July 25, 2014

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

OCP- July 25, 2014

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