Tag: Islamic State
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
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
Will Christmas Come to Iraq?
Makeshift nativity scene in Assyrian refugee camp in Ankawa, Iraq. By Geoffrey P. Johnston http://www.thewhig.com The holiday season is in full swing, with many Canadians ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill Slams Arab Spring & IS
Moscow, December 12, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia thinks that extremist paramilitary groups such as the Islamic State make Muslims themselves ... Read More
Four Youths Beheaded By Isis for Refusing to Renounce Christian Faith
Canon Andrew White said that it is impossible for Christians to live in Iraq under Isis,Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East By ... Read More
IOPS chairman asks Iraqi president to release Tariq Aziz
Moscow, October 23, Interfax - The chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society (IOPS), Sergey Stepashin, has called on Iraqi President Fuad Masum to order ... Read More
ISIS Desecrates Ancient Assyrian Monastery in Iraq
St. Behnam Monastery http://www.fides.org - October 2014 Militiamen from the self-proclaimed 'Islamic Caliphate' have removed the crosses and burned ancient manuscripts in the historic Monastery of ... Read More
Iraqi Assyrians Arm Themselves For The Fight Against ISIS
By Matthew Vickery http://www.mintpressnews.com - October 2014 TEL SKUF, Iraq -- Waesh Toma sits upright and ready, his eyes scanning the Iraqi desert horizon as the ... Read More
No Communion in North Iraq for First Time in 2000 Years
North Iraq Countryside - www.gopixpic.com http://www.catholic.org - 1/10/14 LOS ANGELES -- The ancient region of Nineveh in Iraq, one of the world's first Christian enclaves, has ... Read More
Extremists Destroy Priceless Artifacts In Iraq And Syria
Bas-relief inscriptions at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. An Assyrian winged bull made out of limestone displayed at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad ... Read More
The Minorities of the Nineveh Plain and the Demand for a Safe Haven
By Mikhael Benjamin - 19/9/14 (AINA) -- The province of Nineveh is going through tragic and exceptional conditions, particularly its minorities, national, ethnic, religious and ... Read More
Assyrians in Iraq Face Persecution
El Cajon, a hub for Iraqi refugees, was the site of recent demonstrations calling for the United States to grant asylum to thousands of Iraqi ... Read More
Australian Parliament Calls for Protection of Assyrians in Iraq
Chris Bowen 3/9/14 Canberra (AINA) -- The Australian Federal Parliament discussed the plight of the Assyrians of Iraq on Monday after a motion was raised ... Read More
World ‘Cannot Keep Silent About the Existence of the So-called ISIS,’ Patriarchs Declare
http://www.catholic.org - 2/9/14 Meeting at the Maronite Catholic patriarchate at Bkerke, north of Beirut, Catholic and Orthodox patriarchs convened for a special summit to address the ... Read More
Middle East patriarchs meet diplomats : Call for wiping out terrorists
August 2014 BEIRUT (CNS) — Catholic and Orthodox patriarchs of the Middle East denounced attacks on Christians and called upon the international community to work ... Read More
A Wedding in the Midst of the Assyrian Tragedy in Iraq
21/8/14 (AINA) -- The Islamic State (ISIS) has driven 200,000 Assyrians from their homes and villages in north Iraq. They are sleeping in open fields ... 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
Syria’s Christians Under Threat
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg - 9/8/14 The wildfire victories of the Islamic State (IS, formerly the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) in northern Iraq and Syria have left ... 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
Assyrians Commemorate Martyrs Day As History Repeats Itself
8/7/14 (AINA) -- Between August 7 and 11, 1933, the Iraqi Army and Kurdish and Arab irregulars conducted a massacre of 3,000 Assyrian men, women ... Read More
The Desperate Plight of the Assyrian Christians of Iraq and Syria
By Mardean Isaac http://www.fairobserver.com - 8/6/14 Assyrian Christians are the indigenous people of a contiguous region spanning northeast Syria, southeast Turkey, northwest Iran and northern Iraq. ... Read More