Posts Tagged: Iraqi Christians
‘Peace More Powerful Than War,’ Pope Francis Says in Iraq’s Ruined City of Mosul
Pope Francis heard Muslim and Christian residents in the ruined Iraqi city of Mosul tell of their lives under brutal Islamic State rule on Sunday,...
Iraqi Christians Celebrate Christmas One Year After Islamic State Defeat
Iraqi Christians quietly celebrated Christmas on Tuesday amid improved security, more than a year after the country declared victory over Islamic State militants who threatened...
Iraqi Christians Are Racing Against Time
JNS.org - Before the Islamic State swept across the Nineveh Plains in the summer of 2014 -- driving more than 100,000 Christians into exile in Kurdistan -- some 5,000 Syriac-Catholic...
Mideast Christian Activists Concerned by Arrests of Iraqi Coreligionists in US
JNS.org - Middle East Christian activists are raising concern over raids by US authorities last weekend that resulted in the arrests of dozens of Christian-Iraqi nationals living in...
Eyewitness Accounts From Persecuted Iraqi Christians
It is painful to recall the events of late summer 2014, when the Islamic State killed or expelled thousands of Christians from their historic homeland...
British-Jewish Publisher, Philanthropist, Savior of Mideast Christians Dies at 96
JNS.org - British-Jewish publisher and philanthropist George Weidenfeld, known for funding the rescue of 2,000 Syrian and Iraqi Christians who were being threatened by the Islamic...
Catholic Aid Group Announces $4 Million Aid Package for Iraqi Christians
JNS.org - The Catholic charity organization Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has announced a new package of $4 million in assistance for Iraq’s beleaguered...
Israeli Doctors Save Life of Iraqi Christian Toddler With Heart Defect
JNS.org - Maryam Mansour, an 18-month-old Iraqi Christian girl with a serious heart defect whose family fled the Islamic State terror group, received a...
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 Leader Calls on Muslims to Lead Fight Against Islamic Fundamentalism
JNS.org - Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Mar Louis Raphael I Sako called on Muslims to lead the fight to "dismantle the fundamentalist ideology" that has...
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...
Jewish Group Partners With IsraAID to Help Iraqi Christians, Yazidis
JNS.org - The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is partnering with the Israeli international relief organization IsraAID to help deliver urgent humanitarian aid to beleaguered...
Vatican Hints at Breaking Interfaith Relations With Muslim Leaders Over Christian Slaughter
JNS.org - The Vatican has called on Muslim leaders to "unequivocally condemn" the violence being carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and...
To the Weekend Protesters
This weekend, there have been large protests on the streets of London, Cape Town, and Santiago, and smaller demonstrations in Paris and New York. Were they...
