News & Reports

By MadaMasr – This year saw Egypt and the European Union “elevate” their relations with a “strategic and comprehensive partnership” to the tune of 7.4 billion euros. An investment [...]

By Fabio Beretta – Fides News Agency (via AINA) – Although the black flag of the Islamic State no longer flies over the Nineveh Plains, “only 60 percent of Christians have [...]

By MEMRI – JTTM – Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) claimed, in four statements published on July 25-27, 2024, that on July 24 its fighters attacked six villages in the Democratic [...]

By NYT – A country torn apart by civil war could soon face one of the world’s worst famines in decades, experts said. Hundreds of thousands of deaths — as many as 2.5 million, according to [...]

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 [...]