by OLIVER LANE Islamist forces have blown up a church dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the last Islamic Caliphate in 1915, burning the extensive library of manuscripts kept there and exhuming the bones of hundreds of victims interred there. The priest responsible for the Der Zor memorial church […]
A Greek Orthodox priest told a United Nations panel about the horrifying plight of Christians in the Middle East and said Israel is the only place in the region where Christians can live in safety. “The earth of the Middle East is soaked with the blood of Christians being killed daily,” Father Gabriel Naddaf, who […]
Christians found themselves on the road to extinction in Mosul after ISIS captured the city. For the first time in sixteen hundred years, no Church bells rang on Sunday. It is not an anomaly, in the Syrian city of Raqqa Sunni warriors convey a simple message, “convert to Islam or face the sword.” The genocide […]
(www.catholic.org) Islamic State terrorists have begun their promised killing of Christians in Mosul, and they have started with the children. According to a report via CNN, a Chaldean-American businessman has said that killings have started in Mosul and children’s heads are being erected on poles in a city park. “There is a park in Mosul,” Mark […]
WASHINGTON — Obama is considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian crisis among as many as 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq who have been dying of heat and thirst on a mountaintop after death threats from terrorist called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) whom Obama has been […]
The Ukrainian protests began on Nov. 21, 2013, back then Russia blamed the U.S. and the EU for the violence and called for peace, somehow Putin is now to blame for this whole mess. It was Obama and the European leaders who were supporting the riots and called for “Democracy” while Molotov cocktails were being thrown at […]
“They were trying to kill us… because we were Christians.” — Teenage girl from Homs, Syria. There have been house-to-house searches in Mali for Christians who might be in hiding, and people tortured into revealing Christian relatives. At least one pastor was beheaded. It is to the media’s shame that those who slaughter, behead, crucify […]
By David Singer : As the war between Israel and Hamas enters its fourth week – the frenzied condemnation of Israel for exercising its inherent right of self-defence continues to dominate the media coverage of the conflict. Ishaan Tharoor writing in theWashington Post wonders why: “The world is transfixed by the conflict in Gaza, as the death tolls of […]
by KATIE GORKA: Iraq’s Christian leaders have just made a desperate cry for help. Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, head of Iraq’s Catholic church, has issued an appeal “to all who have a living conscience in Iraq and all the world. The situation for Iraq’s Christians has been steadily deteriorating ever since the 2003 invasion, in […]
by Raymond Ibrahim Why is the U.S. downplaying or denying attacks against Christians? “What about the churches which were desecrated? Is this not blasphemy? Where is justice?” — Fr. James Channan OP, Director of The Peace Center, Lahore, Pakistan. Members of the Islamic group al-Shabaab publicly beheaded the mother of two girls, ages 8 and 15, […]
