Christmas Returns to Northern Iraq
[EAST MOSUL, IRAQ] Just one year ago Mosul was the seat of the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate in Iraq. With 1.8 million people under siege, December was a time when
Knights of Columbus Donates Nearly $1 Million for Christmas Food for Iraqi Christians
NEW HAVEN -- The Knights of Columbus is giving a 30-day supply of food to 12,000 displaced or formerly displaced Christian families in northern Iraq to coincide with Christmas. "The Knights of Columbus is
Iraqi Christians: ‘Without a province, it will be hard for us to survive’
"We believe in God first, Trump second," says a Christian man in Ainkawa, Erbil, in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. "You hear it said often here." Iraq's Christians in
Iraqi Christians still need America’s help, former congressman says
After a visit to Iraq, a former U.S. Congressman says the Senate should pass the Iraq and Syria Genocide Accountability Act, which authorizes and directs the State Department and the
Iraqi Christians are racing against time
If they don't soon reclaim their homes on the Nineveh Plains, Christianity in Iraq will be at grave risk BEFORE ISIS swept across the Nineveh Plains in the summer of
Chaldean Patriarch: “sadness and concern” for the issue of Iraqi Christians whom the US government wants to expel
Baghdad - The Chaldean Church closely follows, with sadness and concern, the developments in the judicial proceedings with which the United States of America is preparing to expel 114 Iraqis,
Iraqi Christians complain about land-grabbing by Kurds –USCIRF report
WASHINGTON, DC – Today the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a report on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) titled Wilting in the Kurdish Sun: The Hopes and
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
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
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