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By AINA- Closing their annual synod meeting the Chaldean bishops highlighted the persecution of Christians and the scourge of seemingly unending conflict in the Middle East, calling on the Iraqi [...]

By: Matt Schierer – MEMRI JTTM – One harrowing consequence of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) territorial expansion in Africa is the indiscriminate slaughter, displacement, and harassment [...]

By ALETEIA – In a meeting with aid agencies that support Eastern Churches, Pope Francis deplored the fact that the Middle East is “being stripped of Christians.” “These [...]

By US State Department – Office of International Religious Freedom – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The constitution states that “freedom of belief is absolute” and “the freedom of practicing [...]

By AFP (via AINA) – Iraq’s prime minister reinstated Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako as the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic church, paving the way for his return to Baghdad a year after a [...]

Pope Francis said (on May 25, during an audience with leaders of the Pontifical Mission Societies – OPM) that Christians in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [...]

Filmed over four years, The Brink of Dreams captures their transition from childhood to adulthood as they face pivotal life decisions. The documentary film The Brink of Dreams, produced by [...]

By Mindy Belz – WSJ – The government seems powerless to stop the massacres and mass abductions.. Christmas Eve was balmy in Nigeria’s Plateau State, where the Rev. Gideon Dawel’s family [...]

By kurdistan24 (via AINA) – In a meeting covened at the headquarters of the International Chaldean League in Ankawa, the Kurdistan Region’s Armenian community has joint with the [...]

By Nathalie Ritzmann – ACI MENA – Kariye, the former Byzantine Church of St. Savior in Chora, located in the Fatih district of Istanbul and converted into a mosque by presidential [...]