Cardinal Zenari: signs of “improvement” in Syria but Christians continue to suffer
In Aleppo, up to two-thirds of the Christian population has left the city, about half has left the rest of the country. Jobs must be provided for those who remain,
For Iraqi priest, the first Christian refugees will return home in Karemlash, in the Nineveh Plain
Fr Paul talks about the town’s reconstruction by local workers. The plan will first deal with houses with minor damages. If the aid continues, the work should continue "smoothly", but
Detroit’s Chaldean bishop responds to deportation of Iraqi Christians
Bishop Francis Kalabat, the Chaldean Catholic bishop of the Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit, described the federal government’s immigration roundup of dozens of Detroit-area Iraqi Christians as
“We must act quickly if Christianity is to survive in Middle East” Knights of Columbus
The Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization, has launched a massive nationwide advertising campaign to spread awareness and raise funds for the plight of Middle East
Christian Communities Decimated by 50-80% in Syria, Iraq, Since 2011
According to a new report, more than half the Christians living in Syria and Iraq have been killed or fled the country since 2011, mostly because of targeted persecution from
Three years on, Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Baghdad, Louis Raphael Sako returns to Mosul districts taken back from jihadist militia
Mosul – Exactly three years since Mosul was taken by the so called IS Islamic state terror group (DAESH), Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako was able to return to
Convert or die, says Shia leader to Iraqi Christians
Dozens of Iraqi Christian families filed a lawsuit against the head of the Iraq’s Shia Waqf (Iraqi Shia Endowment Fund), Sheikh Alaa al-Moussawi, on charges of incitement against Christians. Al-Moussawi, who
‘We cannot rest’ while Christians are being persecuted, advocates say
“When fellow Christians suffer, we suffer too," Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. stated in his May 12 keynote address at the World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians. At
Niniveh: reconstruction increases Christian unity and communion, says nuncio to Iraq
In a letter to Patriarch Sako, Mgr Ortega Martín says that cooperation between Churches is a "strong show of communion” in the face of persecution and violence. The prelate notes
Iraqi Christian villages to begin rebuilding process with the first 100 homes
The long road home for the thousands of Iraqi Christians displaced by ISIS is set to begin Monday with the construction of 100 houses-- the first of an estimated 13,000