Posts Tagged: Assyrian Christians
Islamic State Releases 37 Assyrian Christian Hostages
JNS.org - The Islamic State terror group over the weekend released 37 Assyrian Christian hostages, mostly women, after negotiating with the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church...
Palmyra Redux: The Clash of Civilization & Barbarism
Amid the stately yet skeletal ruins of Palmyra, Syria, the world is witnessing in real time the clash between civilization and barbarism, a microcosm of...
Islamic State Blows Up Church in Syria on Easter Sunday
JNS.org - Terrorists from the Islamic State group have reportedly blown up a church in northeastern Syria on Easter Sunday. The 80-year-old Church of the...
Israeli Envoy to Sweden Celebrates Assyrian Christian New Year
JNS.org - Israeli Ambassador to Sweden Isaac Bachman celebrated the Assyrian Christian New Year with the Scandinavian country's large Assyrian diaspora community amid the...
Assyrian Christians Under Increasing Assault From Islamic State in Syria
JNS.org - The number of Assyrian Christians captured by the Islamic State terror group in northeastern Syria continues to rise, marking the latest brutal...
Assyrian Church Leader After ISIS Abductions: ‘We Only Have the Almighty Left to Protect Us’
The Vice President of the Assyrian Church in Lebanon, Father Yatroun Colliana, lamented the plight of his coreligionists in neighboring Syria following Monday's Islamic State (ISIS)...
Islamic State Militants Abduct at Least 90 From Christian Villages in Syria
JNS.org- The Islamic State terror group has abducted at least 90 Assyrian Christians from their villages in northeastern Syria, a Syrian human rights groups tracking...
Iraqi Assyrian Christians Form Militia to Fight Islamic State
JNS.org - Iraqi Christians have formed a militia to take back their Nineveh Plains homeland from the Islamic State terror group. According to the UK-based Catholic...
Iraqi Christian Village Holds First Mass Since Islamic State Invasion
JNS.org - The small Iraqi Christian village of Telskuf, located in Iraq's contested Nineveh Province, on Sunday held its first mass since last summer's...
Iraq’s Assyrian Christians Form Militia to Fight Islamic State
JNS.org - Iraqi Assyrian Christians have formed the country's first Christian militia to defend their ancient villages and to fight the Islamic State terror...
Turkey Erects Refugee Camps for Fleeing Syrian Christians
Turkey is erecting new refugee camps to accommodate the growing number of Christians fleeing the Syrian civil war. Turkey has seen an influx of 250,000-400,000 Syrian...
B’nai B’rith Raising Awareness on Persecution of Middle East Christians
B'nai B'rith International, the world's oldest Jewish service organization, is teaming up with experts to promote knowledge about the roughly 200 million...