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Hungary’s response to urgent need to help persecuted Christians ‘stay in their homelands’

October 13, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Ankawa, Ayatollah Khomeini, Bartella, Erbil, Genocide, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Kurds, Middle East, Nineveh Plains, Qaraqosh, Soviet Union, Syria, Tel Skuf, Viktor Orbán

...have already built an elementary school in one of the Christian villages, Bartella, a school named after the revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Tehran has also opened a mosque and a...

Iraq Christians returning home face many hurdles

June 14, 2017 Iraq Bashar Warda, Islamic State, Middle East, Mosul, Nineveh Plains

The Islamic State emblem, which once adorned this wall in the town of Bartella, has been replaced by red crosses and the flag of a Shia militia, highlighting divided loyalties...

Returning Christian families urged to put down roots in northern Iraq

May 18, 2017 Iraq Bartella, Iraq, Islamic State, Karamles, Nineveh Plains, Qaraqosh, Tel Skuf

...Shmuni in Bartella, where some 1,451 houses belonging to Syriac Orthodox families need to be rebuilt or repaired. Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Timothaeus Mosa Alshamany said at the ceremony: “We are...

Iraqi Christian couple despair at sight of house IS destroyed

February 14, 2017 Iraq IDPs, Islamic State, Karamles, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Tel Skuf

...Jacoub, a visiting priest from Bartella, another liberated village in the Nineveh Plains, “There needs to be guaranteed security, not only on a local level but nationwide.” He remains hopeful...

Devastated northern Iraq needs ‘new Marshall Plan’ for reconstruction

February 3, 2017 Iraq Bashar Warda, Erbil, IDPs, Islamic State, Kurds, Middle East, Refugees

The liberated town of Bartella in the Nineveh Plains, 21km east of Mosul, is today a picture of destruction.Open Doors The Archbishop of Erbil in northern Iraq, who is...

Sifting through the debris of IS’s destruction

February 1, 2017 Iraq Bartella, Iraq, Islamic State, Karamles, Nineveh Plains, Qaraqosh

...visited them. Vienna-based legal counsel Ewelina Ochab, author of Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East, paid visits to Qaraqosh, Bartella and Karamles in the...

‘Many years’ before Mosul stable enough for Christians to return

January 30, 2017 Iraq Islamic State, Mosul, Nineveh Plains

...of doing so depend on the actions of the Iraqi Government, a leading researcher has warned. Iraqi forces man a checkpoint in the town of Bartella, 21km east of Mosul,...

Mother and son escape after 2 years under IS

January 9, 2017

...in Need, Jandark Benham Mansour Nassi, 55, and her son Ismail, 16, gave an account of being taken from their home in Bartella to Mosul when IS invaded towns and...

Devastation of liberated Iraqi Christian towns makes return home seem further away than ever

December 15, 2016 Iraq Bartella, Erbil, IDPs, Islamic State, Karamles, Kurds, Nineveh Plains, Qaraqosh, Refugees

...Camp in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. This man has just returned from his home in Bartella, one of the recently liberated Christian towns on the Nineveh Plain. In the summer of...

More Iraqi towns ‘freed’ but Nineveh Christians not confident about safe return

October 25, 2016 Iraq Bartella, Bashiqa, Chaldeans, Islamic State, Karamles, Middle East, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Peshmerga, Qaraqosh, Tel Kaif

...of Mart Shmoni in the recently freed town of Bartella, more homes where Christians used to live in Iraq’s north-eastern Nineveh Plain were being claimed back from the Islamic State...

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