MIDDLE EAST – The Impossible Future of Christians in the Middle East
The Atlantic | Emma Green | May 23, 2019 The call came in 2014, shortly after Easter. Four years earlier, Catrin Almako’s family had applied for special visas to the…
IRAQ – Disabled Iraqi Christian Woman Overcomes Persecution
International Christian Concern | March 20, 2019 Although the reconstruction of Mosul is slow, following its three-year occupation by the Islamic State (ISIS), the city’s bustling university provides hope for…
IRAQ – The New Threat Iraq’s Christians
Real Clear Politics | Dec. 24, 2018 In March of 2017, with the battle for control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, raging just miles away, I was driven into…
IRAQ – 120 Christian Sites Destroyed in Mosul
International Christian Concern | Dec. 2, 2018 Rudaw reports that thousands of Christian homes as well as 120 churches and Christian shrines have been destroyed by ISIS in Mosul alone.…
IRAQ – Mosul’s Destruction Haunts the Nineveh Plains
International Christian Concern | Nov. 29, 2018 Mosul was once a beautiful city. Today, piles of rubble are everywhere. Buildings are completely demolished; cars are riddled with bullet holes. Despite…
IRAQ – Mosul’s Destruction Haunts the Nineveh Plains
International Christian Concern | Nov. 29, 2018 Mosul was once a beautiful city. Today, piles of rubble are everywhere. Buildings are completely demolished; cars are riddled with bullet holes. Despite…
IRAQ – School bells ring again at Mosul’s Christian School
Al- Monitor |Nov. 7, 2018 School bells finally rang at Shimon Safa Elementary School this fall, Mosul’s oldest Christian school that had been closed for four years. The school, also called the Shimon Safa Institute,…
IRAQ – Iraq’s Christians Refuse to Return, Afraid ‘They Will Again Be Targeted’
CBN News | 073018 Tens of thousands of displaced Christians have returned to their cities and villages in the Iraq's Nineveh Plain, but many still refuse to return to Mosul.…
OPINION – How to Get Christians to Stay
ANALYSIS: For Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, the goal now is ‘not just surviving; it’s thriving’ in their ancestral home National Catholic Register | Edward Pentin | 053018 ERBIL, Iraq…