Across the Nineveh Plains, the destruction is overwhelming. In Qaraqosh, once Iraq’s largest Christian town, the blackened remains of burned-out homes stand like tombstones of the past.
That report finds that ISIS, far from intending to destroy Iraqi and Syrian Christian communities, respects them as “People of the Book,” and seeks to peacefully coexist them. The museum ...
Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Church, is urging Iraqi Christians to actively participate in the ...
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Trump's commitment to combating anti-Christian rhetoric is the ideal time to serve much needed justice for Iraq's Assyrians. My grandmother was Assyrian. She hailed from Iraq, spoke modern Aramaic ...
This seems to be a new trend: Recently other Iraqi Christian hostages have been killed despite ransom payments. Pope Francis has been among those trying in vain to call attention to the ongoing ...
Another member of the Iraqi Religious Freedom Roundtable, Amir Mawloud, from Kurdistan, spoke next. The Kurds are a large ...
Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...