Fresh move to prosecute IS for genocide
Bartella, 15km east of Mosul, was liberated from IS by Iraqi forces in October 2016. (Photo World Watch Monitor) Campaigners have welcomed a bill designed to facilitate the prosecution of...
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Iraq’s young people must lead its rebuilding, says archbishop
...Muslims clean up Mosul monastery desecrated by IS ‘Many years’ before Mosul stable enough for Christians to return Bishop Yousif Thoma Mirkis of Kirkuk, 170km southeast of Mosul, recently visited...
Mosul still ‘extremely dangerous’, says returning Christian woman
Nadia Butti in St. George’s Monastery in Mosul. Photo credit: Jaco Klamer/Aid to the Church in Need Nadia Butti, a Christian woman from Mosul, found the churches of her city...
Mass grave of Christians found in Iraq
Sign to Mosul, Iraq’s second city, where a mass grave of Christians has been found (Flickr/CC/Jeffrey Beall) A mass grave holding the remains of 40 Christians has been found in...
Asia Bibi’s family and Boko Haram survivor visit Pope
...the Church of St. Paul in Mosul, Iraq, were also lit up in red light to symbolise the blood of Christians killed for their faith. Bibi’s husband, Ashiq Masih, who...
Islamic State regroups in Somalia, ‘without many obstacles’
...fighters of the Somali militant Islamist group Al-Shabaab. The Iraqi city of Qaraqosh, south of Mosul, was liberated from IS in November 2016. Since then its fighters have started to...
Imam calls for radical reforms to end extremism and safeguard Eastern Christians
...Drouiche, vice president of the Conference of Imams of France and an imam in Nimes, said that the ideology behind the sex-slave market set up in Mosul, Iraq, during its...
Rome’s Colosseum to be floodlit red to remember Asia Bibi and Boko Haram victim
...Iraq will also be lit in red: the St. Elijah Maronite Cathedral in Aleppo, and St Paul’s church, Mosul, where the first Mass since Islamic State’s 2014 power-grab was celebrated...
Netherlands joins UN Security Council to shine light on IS genocide
A desecrated church in the Iraqi town of Karamles, in the Nineveh Plains near Mosul (World Watch Monitor) The Netherlands has just joined the UN Security Council as a temporary...
The Good News
...her mother by an IS fighter. For three years, she lived with a Muslim family in IS territory. With the liberation of Mosul, also came the liberation of Christina. The...