Tag: ISIS
Assyrians Should Leave the Middle East
Peter BetBasoo - August 2015 (AINA) -- On June 10, 2014 ISIS captured Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. On August 7, 2014 ISIS drove into ... Read More
Assyrians Fleeing Hasaka – Syria
Assyrians leaving Hasaka. Syriac Orthodox Patriarch, Ignatius Afram II (right), in Qamishle, Syria. July 2015- Bar Daisan Qamishle, Syria (AINA) -- After some fighting close to ... Read More
Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Calls on Youth to Defend Their Lands in Syria
https://www.facebook.com/HisHolinessPatriarchMoranMorIgnatiusAphrem2nd?fref=ts By Bar Daisan - 3/7/15 Qamishli, Syria (AINA) -- The Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Ignatius Aphrem II, arrived on Saturday, June 27th ... Read More
Where’s the Pope’s Encyclical on Christian Persecution?
Raymond Ibrahim - June 2015 Pope Francis recently released a new encyclical. Portions of it deal with environmentalism, global warming, and climate change. Naturally, this has ... Read More
Video Shows Massive Destruction in Liberated Assyrian Village in Syria
19/6/15 (AINA) -- A video posted on youtube by the Syriac Military Council (NFS), an Assyrian militia that has been fighting ISIS in Syria, shows ... Read More
ISIS Release Assyrian Hostage in Syria
Francois Sawa was released yesterday by ISIS in Syria (screen capture, AssyriaTV). 18/6/15 (AINA) -- ISIS released yesterday one of the 253 Assyrians who were ... Read More
CHRISTIAN MONKS, STUDENTS REFUSE TO FLEE 4TH-CENTURY MONASTERY NEAR ISIS-CONTROLLED MOSUL; ‘GOD PROTECTS US’
The Christian Post- June 2015 Three monks and six students have taken refuge in the ancient monastery of Mar Mattai in northern Iraq, just 12 ... Read More
Interview with the Ethiopian Martyrs’ Families by CYC
http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/ 13/6/15 - The Coptic youth Channel Interview in the presence of H.G Bishop Youssef, H.G Bishop Karas, H.G Bishop Bemen, and twenty persons came ... Read More
ISIS Kidnap 88 Eritrean Christians in Libya
www.foxnews.com OCP News Service - 10/6/15 Also Read : The Detained Patriarch, Persecuted Christians and a Dying Church Libya: Several international human right's groups and ... Read More
Christians of the Middle East will stay on their own soil and fight terrorists, participants of international forum claim
Sochi, June 4, Interfax - In spite of mass exodus of Christians from the Middle East, many of the Christians are going to stay in ... Read More
ISIS threatens ancient monastery filled with Christians
LEO HOHMANN - WND.com A 1,650-year-old monastery in northern Iraq, one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world, is in danger of falling to ISIS. ... Read More
ISIS Release Two Assyrian Hostages in Syria – All 35 Assyrian Villages Liberated
Ramziyya Rehana, an Assyrian released by ISIS after 3 months of captivity, at a hospital in Hasaka, Syria. 27/5/15 Hasaka, Syria (AINA) -- ISIS released ... Read More
ISIS Burns 80 year old Assyrian Woman in North Iraq
27/5/15 (AINA) -- According to a report by the BasNews agency, ISIS burned an 80 year-old Assyrian woman to death in a village southeast of ... Read More
US State Department Says No to Iraqi Christians
By Faith J. H. McDonnell - May 2015 Writing in April in USA Today about the murder of 12 Christian migrants thrown into the sea ... Read More
THE CHRISTIAN QUARTER IN JERUSALEM WAS ATTACKED
Pravoslavie.ru - May 2015 Residents of the Christian quarter of Jerusalem are becoming victims of attacks by extremists; this time not only were the shrines of ... Read More
The Lives of Assyrian Christians – Can We Imagine?
http://a.abcnews.com/ By Sargis Sangari http://www.assistnews.net ISIS' claim of responsibility for the shooting in Garland, Texas, was proof of its ability to capitalize on terrorist sympathizers ... Read More
Saving Assyrian Tel Tamer
A church in a village in Al-Hasakah province, where more than 20,000 Christians still live. <img class="" src="http://www.aina.org/images/20150505152028.jpg" alt="Melke Rabo is a commander in the ... Read More
What Will It Take to Return Christians to Their Homeland in Iraq?
http://www.operationworld.org/ By John Burger http://www.aleteia.org - 5/5/15 The Iraqi Interior Ministry has announced the creation of a joint task force to start military operations aimed at ... Read More
ISIS IS USING CHILDREN AND EVEN INFANTS
“This baby is dangerous for you, not only for us” - a photograph's title reads. Pravoslavie.ru Children who were born on the territory controlled by ... Read More
ISIS Demands $23 Million for Assyrian Hostages : Vigil Held in Australia
Assyrian Church of the East Bishop Mellis of Australia 2/5/15 (AINA) -- Assyrian church leader are reporting that ISIS has rejected a ransom offer for ... Read More
U.S. Religious Freedom Commission Calls for Criminal Prosecution of ISIS
http://www.loonwatch.com/ By Mark A. Kellner http://www.deseretnews.com - 1/5/15 A U.S. government commission is calling for international prosecution of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ... Read More