Tag: ISIS

Iraq’s Dwindling Christians Wonder If It’s Time To Leave Iraq

OCP- June 19, 2014

By Leila Fadel National Public Radio - 19/6/14 About 20 miles outside the embattled northern Iraqi city of Mosul lies the Christian village of Al-Qoush. It's ... Read More

ISIS Cuts Off Water, Electricity, Destroys Churches

OCP- June 19, 2014

19/6/14 (AINA) -- Sources in Tikrit and Mosul have told AINA that ISIS has cut off water and electricity to some parts of the cities. ... Read More

Jihadists attack Armenian church in Iraq’s Mosul

OCP- June 13, 2014

13/6/14 PanARMENIAN.Net - The jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, which has been systematically attacking—and invading—key cities in Iraq, attacked the St. Etchmiadzin Armenian ... Read More

Mosul now emptied of Christians, says Archbishop

OCP- June 13, 2014

13/6/14 (Vatican Radio) Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Chaldean Archbishop Amel Nona, said he thought Mosul's last remaining Christians had ... Read More

ISIS Expands Control, Begins Persecuting Christians in Mosul

OCP- June 13, 2014

13/6/14 (AINA) -- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also known asDa'ash and ISIL) yesterday took control of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. Various ... Read More

ISIS Destroys 3000 Year-old Assyrian Artifacts in Syria

OCP- May 19, 2014

May 2014 (AINA) -- According to a report from the website www.apsa2011.com, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) ... Read More

ISIS seizes Armenian church in Raqqa

OCP- December 7, 2013

7/12/13 BEIRUT: An Armenian church in the city of Raqqa has been taken over by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, according to activists. The Al-Qaeda affiliate ... Read More

Al-Qa’ida Desecrates Church in Syria

OCP- October 30, 2013

30/10/13 Tel Abyaḍ, Syria (AINA) -- Recently in the town of Tel Abyaḍ, where there is a small Christian community, the Islamic State of Iraq ... Read More

Christians under threat in Syria as Islamist extremists gain influence

OCP- October 5, 2013

Loveday Morris - 5/10/13 When radical Islamists tore down a cross and hoisted a black flag above a church in the northern Syrian city of ... Read More

Battles rage in Syria Christian town: security source

OCP- September 15, 2013

15/9/13 DAMASCUS:  Syria's army battled rebels for control of the ancient Christian  town of Maaloula near Damascus  on Saturday, a security official told  AFP, a ... Read More