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by bcadmin | May 10, 2022 | Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Isis, lead, martyrdom, News, Nineveh Plains | 0 |
After several days of searching, the remains of two Syrian Chaldean martyrs, killed for their faith by the Ottoman Empire, were found last week in a chapel outside of the Christian village of Qaraqosh, in Iraq’s Nineveh Plain.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 3, 2022 | Casey Chalk, Isis, Islam, News, Pakistan, Persecution, Radical Islam, Syria, The Dispatch | 0 |
Although it does allude to many different episodes of the abuse meted out to Christians by their Muslim neighbors, especially in Pakistan, The Persecuted: True Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 27, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Isis, lead, Mosul, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
Eight months after visiting Iraq’s war-torn city Mosul, Pope Francis sent a message to the citizens, saying that he remembers the destruction he witnessed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 29, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the Middle East, France, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, Isis, Islamic State, Mosul, News, President Emmanuel Macron | 0 |
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday visited Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, which suffered widespread destruction during the war to defeat the Islamic State group in 2017.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2021 | August, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Ferragosto, Isis, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, South Korea | 0 |
While Americans and other cultures may stagger vacations throughout the year, Italy basically crams them all into one somnambulant month.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 17, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Congress, Isis, News, Religious Freedom | 0 |
WASHINGTON — It’s been six years since Frank Wolf served in Congress for a dozen two-year terms. But for the 82-year-old retired congressman, the fire is still in his belly when it comes to protecting the religious rights of people worldwide. “I have seen firsthand the results of genocide,” Wolf
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 27, 2021 | Ayaltollah Ali al-Sistani, Christians in Iraq, Church in the Middle East, Isis, lead, News, papal trip, Pope Francis, Religious Freedom | 0 |
Now months since from Pope Francis’s trip to Iraq the country’s Christian population remains hopeful, but nothing has changed, experts say.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 19, 2021 | Africa, Christian persecution, Church in DRC, Daesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Isis, Islam, Islamic State, News | 0 |
A scene of destruction in Butembo-Beni diocese on 24 March 2021, following an attack by suspected ADF/NALU forces. Photo courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need Islamic insurgents in the Democratic Republic of Congo are engaged in “relentless” violence. A bishop from a hard-hit diocese in the country has given a leading Catholic
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 14, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Isis, lead, Mosul, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
An Iraqi historian says when the people of Mosul “are able to regain some sense of normalcy in their lives, coexistence will come back too, and with it, reconciliation.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Africa, Aid to the Church in Need, Aid to the Church in Need UK, Daesh, Isis, Islamic insurgency, Islamic terrorism, Mozambique, News | 0 |
Brazilian missionary Fr. Edegard Silva in Pemba told ACN the people were becoming used to these attacks. “They were already expecting it,” he said, “because over the past two weeks these evildoers and insurgents had been carrying out a series of attacks in the Nangade region, and almost all the communities close to Palma has already been attacked.”
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 23, 2021 | conversion, Features, inter-religious dialogue, interview, Isis, Islam, Joseph Fadelle, News, Pope Francis, Radical Islam | 0 |
The Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh) achieved its greatest victory in 2014 when its fanatic militants seized control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. The group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ascended […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 9, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, Currents News, Diocese of Brooklyn, Isis, lead, Monsignor Kieran Harrington, News, Pope in Iraq | 0 |
From his experience in Iraq in 2018, Monsignor Kieran Harrington doesn’t look at one stop, or moment, from Pope Francis’ trip to Iraq as most significant. Rather, it’s the fact that the Holy Father was there in the first place.
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