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Iraqi bishops seek $262m for post-IS ‘Marshall Plan’

May 20, 2017 Iraq Bashar Warda, Erbil, Iraq, Islamic State, Jordan, Lebanon, Nineveh Plains, Tel Skuf, Turkey

...100,000 people, including many Christians, fled Mosul and the surrounding Nineveh Plains during IS’s lightning strike of summer 2014. Some of those have fled to Jordan, Lebanon or Turkey and...

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

...around Mosul, can no longer be trusted. There are also divisions among those wanting to return to Iraq. Last Friday (12 May), three Syriac bishops (one Syriac Catholic and two...

US Vice-President says Trump will protect Middle East Christians and flush out ‘terrorists’

May 12, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, Donald Trump, Islamic State, Mike Pence, Taliban

...later moved to Erbil, where he has been involved in caring for minority faith groups displaced by Islamic State’s takeover of Mosul and the Nineveh Plains. Mr. Pence, who backed...

US watchdog adds Russia to its list of worst oppressors of religion

April 27, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Bahrain, Religious freedom, Russia, Taliban, USA

...October 2016 when Iraqi, Kurdish and allied forces began pushing the militants out of their Mosul stronghold in northern Iraq. Nonetheless, the USCIRF report, which covers all of 2016, classifies...

How do Christians respond to persecution?

April 26, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Iraq, Islamic State, Pakistan, Syria, USA

Christians choose to respond to religious persecution by adopting “survival strategies” that require a lot of “creativity, determination and courage".

Embed from Getty Images Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the northern city of Mosul after Islamic State militants took control of the area, arrive for a mass at...

Opposition to Iraqi enclave for non-Muslims voiced by Erbil diocese

March 30, 2017 Iraq Erbil, IDPs, Iraq, Islamic State, Kurds, Mosul, Peshmerga, Saddam Hussein

...However Stephen Rasche, aid co-ordinator for the Catholic diocese of Erbil in northern Iraq, also said that the likelihood of Christians returning to live in the city of Mosul, formerly...

Marbles in the midst of ashes: Iraqi boy returns home ‘post ISIS’

March 23, 2017 Iraq Erbil, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Refugees

In the midst of ashes Noeh finds his marbles.

While the Iraqi military forces are pushing fighters of self-proclaimed Islamic State out of Mosul, their last stronghold, Foreign Ministers from 68 countries met yesterday in Washington to discuss next...

Sunni Arabs ‘helped drive out’ Middle East Christians

March 13, 2017 Iraq, Islamic State, Middle East, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Rape, Sunni, Syria

Amid the push by Iraqi government forces to retake Mosul from Islamic State (IS), some former inhabitants of Christian villages in the Nineveh Plains and northern Syria are refusing to...

Iraqi families urged to return and rebuild homes in Nineveh Plains

March 3, 2017 Iraq Alqosh, Batnaya, Dohuk, IDPs, Islamic State, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Tel Skuf

The families of Nidal (left) and Janan (centre) recently returned home to the Christian town of Telskuf.Open Doors International As the offensive against IS in western Mosul drives civilians...

Iraqi Christian homes ‘looted after IS left’

February 23, 2017 Iraq Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Qaraqosh

Armed forces fighting Islamic State (IS) near Mosul “looted, damaged and destroyed homes” belonging to displaced Iraqis, including Christians, Human Rights Watch said this week. The New York-based agency used...

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