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Iraq: ‘We are a martyred and a suffering Church’
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“God and family are the priority in our everyday lives here. They are faithful to His love, in the midst of the danger from external enemies, and from the internal challenges of modern times that threaten to weaken their traditional faith.”
Iraqi prelate weighs threat to Christian community of US-Iran confrontation
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“The confrontation between the two powers must not escalate.” He added that “Iraq has been suffering from proxy wars for decades; they have torn our country apart.”
Syriac Catholic Patriarch visits northern Iraq: ‘We have to always hope against all hope’
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“It’s very sad to say, and I’ve said this many times: Christians of the Middle East have not only been abandoned; they have been betrayed by the civilized countries of the West.”
Aid specialist warns that Christians in Iraq and Syria face new risk of genocide
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“Christians are the soul of the country and they play a very important role in Middle Eastern societies. They are the peacemakers. Christians work for peace and peaceful co-existence and collaboration for the good of the country.”
Iraqi prelate pleads before UN Security Council for international support
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Iraq stands at a historic crossroads. The Christian and other minority communities of Iraq stand with – and often beside – Muslim protestors as together they seek a better life, based on equality regardless of religious belief.
Aid to the Church in Need begins repair of churches, church buildings in Iraq’s Christian homeland
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ACN hopes that this new initiative will restore hope for Iraq’s remaining Christians—a battered and fragile mere 10 percent of the 1.5 million Christians living in the country prior to 2003, when the US invaded the country. The subsequent civil war saw the religiously motivated murder of at least 1,000 Christians.
Deadly protests in their country leave Iraqi Christians between hope and fear
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“We appeal to the conscience of Iraqi officials to listen seriously to their people, who are complaining of the current miserable situation, the deterioration of services, and the spread of corruption.”
National Review: ACN Outreach Director discusses Christianity in Iraq
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One of Iraq’s most prominent Christian leaders has deeper concerns. On the fifth anniversary of the ISIS invasion of northern Iraq, Bashar Warda of the Chaldean Catholic archdiocese of Erbil, Kurdistan, stresses that “Christianity in Iraq is perilously close to extinction.”
Iraqi Christians fear appointment of Islamic judges to country’s highest court
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IN A COUNTRY where Christians have been subject to targeted bombings, kidnapping, and discrimination, Church leaders are grappling with a new crisis: an attempt to …
Five years after the ISIS invasion of the Nineveh Plains, the end of Christianity in Iraq?
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“We Christians are a people of hope. But facing the end also brings us clarity, and with it the courage to finally speak the truth. Our hope to remain in our ancient homeland now rests on our own ability, and the ability of our oppressors and of the world at large, to acknowledge the truth. Violence and discrimination targeting the innocents must end. Those who teach it must stop.”
