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Mosul Christmas Mass hailed a ‘victory over IS’ as Sunni youth install giant Christmas tree

January 5, 2018 Iraq Chaldeans, Christmas, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Orthodox, Saddam Hussein, Sunni, Youth

Christmas 2017 in Iraq
The celebration of a first mass in Mossul (Mosul) since 2014. His Beatitude Raphael Sako and Bishop Shlemon Warduni (from the Chaldean Church) are presiding the Mass. Archbishops Mouche (Syriac Catholic) and Abp Nicodemus Dauod Matti Sharaf (Syriac-Orthodox) were participating. Muslim representatives were present at the celebration.

...very spot used to mast the biggest ISIS flag in Mosul. Now both the Iraqi flag & Christmas tree replace it. You can see how resilient & challenging we are…!#mosul...

A merry Saudi Christmas and the flight from Egypt

December 25, 2017 Christmas, Egypt, El-Arish, India, Migrants, Saudi Arabia

...families fled the region of El-Arish when IS took control of it in spring this year, just as Iraqi Christians did on a larger scale when IS seized Mosul and...

Sweden opens church for 5,000 Christians who fled Middle East

December 15, 2017 Baghdad, Catholics, Chaldeans, Germany, Iraq, Islamic State, Middle East, Mosul, Sweden

Evening mass at Mar Elia Chaldean Catholic Church in the Iraqi city of Erbil, attended by many refugees from Mosul and Nineveh Plains who fled IS. (Photo: World Watch Monitor, 2014)

Evening mass at Mar Elia Chaldean Catholic Church in the Iraqi city of Erbil, attended by many refugees from Mosul and the Nineveh Plains who fled IS. (Photo: World Watch...

‘80% of religious discrimination targets Christians’

December 7, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Bishop Angaelos, Copts, Human rights, Middle East, Patriarch Bartholomew I, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Religious freedom

Father Poulos looking up to the ceiling in this house that still has a lot of destruction and needs thorough repairs

A priest takes a look inside a badly damaged home in a village near Mosul, Iraq, August 2017 (World Watch Monitor) Christians are the victims in 80 per cent of...

Universal Children’s Day: Kidnapped Christina receives letter from German namesake

November 20, 2017 Iraq Ankawa, Children, Christina Abada, Erbil, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Qaraqosh, Refugees

Five-year-old Christina, shortly after she was reunited with her family, including mother Ayda in the back. (Twitter @thestevennabil)

...his or her religion runs counter to the provisions of the Islamic Sharia”. “She speaks Arabic well as she was with a Muslim family in Mosul but the last months...

Lives in limbo – Iraqi Christians’ long wait for asylum in Lebanon

November 8, 2017 Lebanon Armenians, Assyrians, Asylum seekers, Beirut, IDPs, Iraq, Islamic State, Lebanon, Middle East, Refugees, Syria, Trauma, UN

...old house in Mosul, which is now in ruins (World Watch Monitor) Sixty-year-old Hilal Shamoon used to run his own business; now he receives food parcels from the local Evangelical...

Christians on alert as Iraqi forces take over Nineveh Plains

October 18, 2017 Iraq Bartella, Bashiqa, Iraq, Islamic State, Nineveh Plains, Peshmerga, Saddam Hussein

Christian returnees have lunch together in Bashiqa, August 2017. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...the priests in the town of Bashiqa, near Mosul, told World Watch Monitor he had been expecting a government response following the outcome of the Kurdish referendum in September, when...

Hungary’s response to urgent need to help persecuted Christians ‘stay in their homelands’

October 13, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Ankawa, Ayatollah Khomeini, Bartella, Erbil, Genocide, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Kurds, Middle East, Nineveh Plains, Qaraqosh, Soviet Union, Syria, Tel Skuf, Viktor Orbán

...children, and also employment opportunities. As the Metropolitan of Mosul, Nicodemus Sharaf, explained: “Because if their children have no schools and their youths no work, the Christians will not choose...

Christians returning to former IS-occupied Karamles ‘increasing day to day’

October 12, 2017 Iraq Chaldeans, Iraq, Islamic State, Karamles, Kurds, Mosul, Nineveh Plains

...Nineveh Plains towns east of Mosul that fell to IS as it advanced across northern Iraq in August 2014. The occupation forced Christian families to flee for safer cities like...

Iraqi Archbishop of Mosul: ‘My cousin, my friend, my teacher – all killed by terrorists’

August 31, 2017 Iraq Al-Qaeda, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Saddam Hussein, Salafism

...possible in Mosul, explained that, before IS, Christians in the city were being murdered by, apparently, members of Al-Qaeda. In a previous interview with Kino, after the liberation of Mosul...

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