President Masoud Barzani received His Beatitude Patriarch Mar Polis III Nona, Patriarch of the Chaldean Church in Iraq and the world, on Monday, according to a statement from the Barzani Headquarters. During the meeting, Patriarch Mar Polis III Nona expressed his gratitude and appreciation for President Barzani's continued efforts to protect and support the rights of Christians and all ethnic and...
A dispute over the registration of around 1,800 residential plots in the Christian-majority town of Tel Kaif in Iraq's northern Nineveh province has reached Baghdad, with Christian lawmakers in the federal parliament demanding a halt to the process, arguing the land is being distributed to Arab citizens in violation of the constitution.
Bucharest -- The 14th World Congress of Syriac [modern Assyrian] Studies, also called Symposium Syriacum, opened on Monday at the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania, bringing together more than 400 scholars and specialists from 33 countries and 176 universities to examine the history, language, theology, and cultural heritage of one of the world's oldest Christian traditions.
By Ablahad Hanna Saka
On August 3, 2014, the world awoke to one of the most horrific crimes in modern Iraqi history, when the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization overran the district of Sinjar and its surrounding areas, committing atrocious crimes against the Yezidi community.
By Leila Darwish
Inanna Sarkis, actress, director, and internet star with tens of millions of followers, is trading the feed for the pages with her graphic novel debut, Inanna: The Name She Lost. This story reimagines the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love and war as a woman in modern-day San Francisco with nothing but a name and a rage she can't explain.
By Elliott Banks
Amid growing concern for the survival of Christianity in Iraq, the country's bishops are set to assess a new scheme helping Christian families who fled jihadist terror to return. Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil told Catholic Charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the country's bishops will be meeting next month to discuss the government plan aimed at encouraging Christians to come...