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Global Church meets to seek unity in face of persecution

November 6, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Albania, Aleppo, Algeria, Catholics, Churches, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, India, Iraq, Islamic State, Kenya, Kidnapping, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nigeria, Nineveh Plains, Orthodox, Pakistan, Pentecostals, Protestants, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Yohanna Ibrahim

...hard-hitting testimony from, for example, the former Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Basilios Georges Casmoussa, now based in Lebanon. About the destruction wrought by the self-proclaimed Islamic State, he said:...

IS releases first execution video of Syrian Christians

October 9, 2015 Syria Assyrians, Hasakah, Hezbollah, Islamic State, Jacques Mourad, Khabur, Syria

...causing irrevocable damage to the native people, minorities, ethnic and religious groups” of Iraq and Syria. “From the beginning of the fall of Mosul city until today, Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian people and...

Iraq’s ISIS survivors adjust to life in a refugee camp

September 17, 2015 Iraq Erbil, Islamic State, Mosul, Refugees, UN

...settle in a makeshift camp, which has now been their home for more than a year. In 2014, thousands of people left their homes in Mosul, Karamles, Qaraqosh, and other...

Another ancient Assyrian monastery bulldozed

August 21, 2015 Syria Assyrians, Bashar al-Assad, Homs, Iraq, Islamic State, Jacques Mourad, Paolo Dall’Oglio, Qaryatain, Raqqa, Syria

...predominantly Christian town of Qaraqosh. The same month, graphic photos showed IS militants near Mosul smashing and defacing crosses, statues and Christian murals at the St. George Chaldean Catholic Monastery,...

Birthday for a missing girl

July 17, 2015 Iraq Assyrians, Christina Abada, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Kurds

...three (AINA) IS militants overran Iraq’s second city, Mosul, in July 2014, then swept into the town of Qaraqosh on Aug. 6. Already, hundreds of thousands of Christians and other...

IS turns ancient Mosul church into mosque

July 14, 2015 Hasakah, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Ramadan, Syria

Islamic State has turned an ancient Chaldean church in Mosul, Iraq into a mosque, according to Fides. St Joseph church, which is considered to be one the oldest churches of...

Forced out by ISIS, Iraq’s Christians start over

June 10, 2015 Iraq Greek Orthodox, Islamic State, Jordan, Kurds, Refugees

On the run from ISIS: during the night of 9/10 June this two-way road has 10 lines of traffic fleeing Mosul World Watch Monitor One year ago, Mosul fell to...

‘Fabric of Iraqi society depends on Christians’

April 15, 2015 Iraq Erbil, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul

...of Mosul, Emil Shimoun Nona, continues to receive photographs from Islamic State fighters documenting the ongoing desecration and vandalism of the historic Mosul cathedral, which they have turned into a...

Assyrian Christians flee jihadists to southeast Turkey

March 27, 2015 Syria Armenians, Assyrians, Bashar al-Assad, Genocide, Iraq, Islamic State, Khabur, Kidnapping, Lebanon, Qamishli, Syriacs, Turkey

...Assyrians fled to villages near Dohuk in Mosul province. In 1933 a second Assyrian massacre was launched by the new state of Iraq. Some Christians remained, but most fled across...

Reports of ‘blanket’ release of Assyrians dashed

March 12, 2015 Syria Assyrians, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Syria

...a safe corridor for IS militants across the Iraqi border to Mosul. But with the help of coalition airstrikes, Kurdish and Assyrian fighters counter-attacked and retook the villages, pushing IS...

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