Arab churches’ key contribution to Iraqi relief
...to the terrorists.’ Soha is 22. She graduated from university and was looking forward to her new job in Mosul before the IS onslaught. Now she must care for her...
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What’s the threat of Islamic State to the Church worldwide?
...State began its rampage, about 3000 Christians had been living in Mosul, down from 35,000 after the 2003 war. Now, there are virtually no Christians left. The mainly Christian town...
New urgency for an old idea: Nineveh
An ancient Nineveh gate, east of Mosul.James Gordon / Flickr / Creative Commons The militant Islamist rampage across Iraq has intensified calls for a Christian “safe zone,” even as...
Iraqi Erbil priest: “We aim to treat our refugees as guests”
...grey, brown, white and green tents – donated by an array of different organizations. The tents have become home to 700 families from Mosul, Karamlesh, Qarakosh, and other Christian villages...
Iraq: last Christians to leave Bartella
...area, but the majority came to Erbil. Sixty thousand Christians have arrived as refugees in Erbil since Islamic State began terrorising Christians in Mosul and the Ninevah Plains, according to...
Protestant union issues ‘urgent appeal’ to help Iraqi Christians
Refugees from Mosul or towns on the Nineveh plain seeking shelter under a highway near Dohuk in the Kurdish region. They fled the violence caused by IS. August 7, 2014...
‘We want to stay in Iraq, but can’t live like this anymore’
...World Watch Monitor When IS captured Mosul on June 10th the most devastating part of its seizure was its outright targeting of all non-Sunni Muslim groups. This has resulted...
‘One week’ deadlines for Iraqi Christians to convert or ‘face the sword’
...while Qaraqosh, a town of about 50,000 people in Nineveh Province, sits between Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, to the east. The Islamic...
A timeline of ISIS terror
...began an offensive across northern Iraq. It first seized Mosul, the country’s second-largest city, and a handful of smaller towns. Tens of thousands of Iraqis, many of them Christian, have...
Qaraqosh falls, thousands flee
...sits between Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, to the east. The Islamic State took over Mosul in July, and many of the city’s...