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Sunni militants push Christians out of Qaraqosh

August 7, 2014 Iraq Iraq, Islamic State, Kirkuk, Kurds, Mosul, Qaraqosh, Refugees, Sunni

...reports said Sunni militants moved into the area overnight, after Kurdish defense forces withdrew. The militants also have seized Mosul Dam, Iraq’s largest.. Qaraqosh and its surrounding towns in northern...

IS invades monastery, steals ‘everything’ from Iraqi Christians

July 22, 2014 Iraq Al-Qaeda, Alqosh, Baghdad, Batnaya, Chaldeans, Dohuk, Erbil, Genocide, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Jizya, Kidnapping, Kurds, Louis Raphael I Sako, Minorities, Mosul, Qaraqosh, Sunni, Tel Kaif

...Archbishop of Mosul, Yohanna Petros Moshe (in one building), has been burned down. Syrian-Catholic Archbishop of Mosul; Yohanna Petros Mouche (Courtesy of catholiclane.com) He is now in Qaraqosh, where World...

ISIS orders last Christians out of Mosul

July 18, 2014 Iraq Erbil, Iraq, Islamic State, Kurds, Middle East, Mosul

...of Kurdistan region, said a Christian family in Mosul reported by phone that explosions were heard overnight Thursday in Mosul. On Friday, as the family attempted to pass through a...

Mosul’s two kidnapped Chaldean nuns released

July 15, 2014 Iraq Catholics, Chaldeans, Churches, Dohuk, Europe, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Louis Raphael I Sako, Mosul, NATO, Nineveh Plains

...in Mosul, and in at least one reported case is said to have forced Christians to pay the jizya tax for non-Muslims. Currently in Mosul all construction work has stopped,...

First time in 1600 years no Mass said in Mosul, Iraq, says Chaldean Archbishop

June 27, 2014 Iraq Ankawa, Bashar Warda, Chaldeans, Dohuk, Erbil, Iraq, Islamic State, Jizya, Mosul, Peshmerga, Qaraqosh

...Mosul, World Watch Monitor met families sheltering in a Christian-dominated district of Erbil, Ankawa. The largely Christian town of Qaraqosh is, 32 miles southeast of Mosul. Its official Arabic name...

Fewer Christians left to flee

June 18, 2014 Iraq Alqosh, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul

Over the years, the Christian town of Alqosh, Iraq, has served as a refuge to Christians of Mosul who have fled various waves of violence in their home city. Now,...

Why Christians are under pressure to exit Iraq

June 13, 2014 Iraq Islamic State, Jizya, Kirkuk, Kurds, Mosul, Saddam Hussein, Syria

...2003 US-led overthrow of Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein, Christians in Mosul had declined from 35,000 to 3,000. This week, Mosul’s last remaining Christians had left their homes, he said. Describing...

Mosul Christians tell of ISIS forces’ Iraqi takeover

June 12, 2014 Iraq Alqosh, Ankawa, Baghdad, Dohuk, Erbil, Iraq, Islamic State, Kurds, Mosul, Sunni, Syria

...of Mosul – similar to the Green Zone in Baghdad – said after ISIS reached Mosul on June 6 they planned to leave early Tuesday morning around 7 am. But...

Up to 1000 Christian families flee Iraq’s second city

June 10, 2014 Iraq Alqosh, Dohuk, Islamic State, Mosul, Qaraqosh, Syria

...on the ground in Mosul, army and police personnel took off their uniforms so as not to be identified. ISIS now controls the airport in Mosul; taking its guns and...

Iraq: Christian affairs adviser hurt

May 10, 2013 Iraq Iraq, Mosul, Nineveh Plains

The adviser on Christian affairs to the Governor of Nineveh province in northern Iraq, Maajid Ibrahim Hannaa, has been injured in a suicide bombing near Mosul, which also killed three...

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