Tag: ISIS
Assyrians Captured By ISIS Now At 150, Negotiations for Their Release in Progress
Assyrians killed by ISIS, from left: Milad Sammy Adam, Julian Osi, Tamir Darwish, Marius Hurmiz (AINA photo). Simon Somo, killed fighting ISIS. Killed fighting ISIS, ... Read More
Assyrian Church Leader After ISIS Abductions : ‘We Only Have the Almighty Left to Protect Us’
http://www.algemeiner.com - 26/2/15 The Vice President of the Assyrian Church in Lebanon, Father Yatroun Colliana, lamented the plight of his coreligionists in neighboring Syria following Monday's ... Read More
Former Iraqi Minister: ISIS Seeks to ‘Annihilate Christian Presence’ in Iraq
Pascale Warda, former Iraq Minister of Immigration and Refugees By Thomas D. Williams Breitbart – 26/2/15 A real genocide is occurring in Iraq that nobody wants ... Read More
Australian Assyrians Join Coptic Protest Against ISIS
Assyrian Universal Alliance - 25/2/15 Hundreds of protestors gathered at Martin Place in Sydney on Sunday 22 February 2015, In light of ISIS' brutal murder of ... Read More
Assyrian Hostages in Syria Are ‘Safe’, Says ISIS Member
An Assyrian woman and her children who fled from Tel Tamar because of the attacks by ISIS. 25/2/15 Hasaka, Syria (AINA) -- ISIS attacked ... Read More
ISIS Attacks Assyrian Villages in Syria, 4 Killed, Dozens Captured, Churches Burned
The Assyrian church of Mar Bisho on fire, in Tel Shamiran, Syria. Assyrians fleeing ISIS take shelter in St. Mary's Church in Hasaka, Syria. Damage ... Read More
Coptic Christian Mother Forgives, Prays for ISIS Slaughterers of Son
Kyrillos’ mother and other family member in mourning during interview Kyrillos’ baby sister Raymond Ibrahim - 21/2/15 The mother of Kyrillos (Cyrus), one of the 21 ... Read More
Fr Georges Massouh on the 21 Martyrs in Libya
21/2/15 Arabic original here. In a similar vein, I'd highly recommend reading these two articles recently published in The Atlantic: What Isis Really Wants and ... Read More
Statement by the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago
THE COUNCIL OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO - February 2015 The Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago, at which Ukrainian Orthodox Church of ... Read More
ISIS Kills 21 Christian Copts in Libya
http://www.ansamed.info - 14/2/15 Twenty-one Egyptian Christians kidnapped by Isis in Libya around New Year's are feared dead, after Twitter accounts linked to the Libyan branch of ... Read More
World Conference in Erbil on Future of Iraqi Yezidis and Christians
An elderly Christian woman, made homeless by ISIS attacks on the minority in Iraq, sits with her belongings in the Kurdistan Region. By Pishtiwan Jamal ... Read More
ISIS Blows Up Church of Immaculate Virgin in Mosul
By Raymond Ibrahim - February 2015 http://www.raymondibrahim.com According to Rudaw, an Iraqi news agency, on February 2, security sources from the Ninevah police district said ... Read More
ISIS Threatens Assyrians in Syria, Women and Children Evacuated
Assyrian fighters mounting the cross on the Church of St. Pithew in Tel Hurmizd (AINA photo). Assyiran fighters guard the church in Tel Hormizd, Syria, ... Read More
ISIS Opens Market in Mosul for Stolen Assyrian Property
The Arabic letter "n" (inside red circle), signifying "Nasrani" (Christian), on a Christian home in Mosul. 3/2/15 Mosul (AINA) -- ISIS has opened a special ... Read More
ISIS Enters Assyrian Town in Syria & Removes Church Cross
The church in Tel Hormizd, Syria and the cross that was removed from it by ISIS. Photo of ISIS members in Tel Hormizd, Syria. ISIS ... Read More
ISIS Offensive in Bekaa Valley Turns Christian Village Into Ghost Town
Ras Baalbek. http://www.worldtribune.com - 31/1/2015 NICOSIA -- Islamic State of Iraq and Levant has targeted a key route to Lebanon. Officials said ISIL has recruited hundreds ... Read More
ISIS Threatens to Blow Up the Historical Walls of Nineveh
The remains of the walls of Nineveh in north Iraq. Janauray 2015 (AINA) -- According to the Assyrian website www.ankawa.com, ISIS is planning to destroy ... Read More
Orthodox Nun pleads for Christians raped, sold, killed by ISIS
wnd.com - December 2014 It is the season of “peace on Earth,” but Sister Hatune Dogan has a chill in her spirit that could only be ... Read More
Pronouncing of the word “Christmas” is punishable by death on the territories occupied by ISIS
Pravoslavie.ru - December 2014 The outrages of radical Islamists on Iraqi and Syrian territory have not only deprived Christians who live under the yoke of the ... Read More
Photos of Christmas in Iraq
(AINA) -- 2014 was a bad year for the Assyrians of Iraq, who comprise 95% of the country's Christian population. ISIS drove nearly 200,000 Assyrians ... Read More
Christian Refugees in Iraq Face Up to a Bleak Christmas
When baby Mariam was born her mother laid her in a bed made from a plastic bag Below: Refugees in a camp near Erbil (CNS). ... Read More