Ten years after ISIS conquered the grand Iraqi town of Mosul, their devastating impact on the Christian communities of northern Iraq remains. At the time of Mosul's capture in 2014, all 1,200 Christian families living in the city fled. ISIS was routed from the area in 2017, but according to Paul Thabit Mekko, the Chaldea Bishop of Alqosh, barely forty of those families have returned.
Today, Turkey's Christians (Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians) comprise only around 0.1% of the population despite being indigenous peoples of the land. A significant reason for this population collapse is the Christian genocide committed by the Ottoman government and the Turkish nationalist movement from 1913 to 1923.
As Churches across the world come together to celebrate the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, from January 18-25, Patriarch Louis Raphaël Sako, has reminded faithful that unity is not about merging Churches into a single entity but rather embracing diversity and working together despite differences.
Baghdad (Xinhua) -- Iraq's Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities announced Friday the recovery of an ancient Assyrian panel from Britain. The artifact was formally handed over to the Iraqi embassy in London during a ceremony, the ministry said in a statement. The panel, believed to date from between 883 and 859 BC, is a roughly square stone weighing 333 kg. It measures 1.
In Mosul's Old City, the Housh al-Bai'ah complex, once a site of Christian heritage containing four churches, remains largely in ruins with only one church within the complex has been fully restored. This slow pace of reconstruction has left many Christian families hesitant to return. A Community Devastated Priest Raed Adel, who oversees Mosul's churches, detailed the extent of the destruction.
It's been over a month since the collapse of Syria's brutal Assad regime at the hands of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a US-designated terror group. While the collapse of the Assad regime was in many respects a positive development for Syria and the world, the newly emerging Syrian government--dominated by Islamist radicals who espouse al-Qaeda philosophy--presents several reasons to be profoundly...