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Vice-President Pence Leads the Effort to Rescue Christians in Kurdistan

January 13, 2018 by caldeancath Leave a Comment

Wonderful News! Archbishop Bashar Warda is smiling today. According to the Washington Free Beacon, $150 million in aid for religious minorities will help them rebuild after ISIS genocide.

America is shifting funds away from the United Nations to provide massive financial assistance to rebuild the infrastructure and improve millions of lives in Northern Iraq in an area called Kurdistan. Vice-President Pence made the major announcement to fully support the Iraqi Christians.

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President Trump. Please, keep your Promise!

January 5, 2018 by caldeancath 1 Comment

Iraqi Catholic Archbishop pleads with Trump: ‘We need your help now’

by Olivier Knox,

Chief Washington Correspondent • November 27, 2017
Read the original post at Yahoo News.
Photos Alex Brandon AP. Filippo Monteforte AFP. Getty Images
Photos Alex Brandon AP. Filippo Monteforte AFP. Getty Images

WASHINGTON — A senior Iraqi Catholic leader is urgently pleading with President Trump to provide to millions of dollars in aid to rebuild thousands of Christian homes destroyed in the war with the so-called Islamic State, saying the survival of that religious minority may be at stake.

“We need more than words, it’s time for action,“ the Chaldean archbishop of Erbil, Bashar Warda, told Yahoo News in an interview Monday conducted in a hotel in Washington, D.C.

Read more at https://www.yahoo.com/news/iraqi-archbishop-pleads-trump-need-help-now-220932489.html

Iraqi Christians

January 3, 2018 by caldeancath Leave a Comment

Catholic sisters living in Iraq
Catholic sisters living in Iraq

There have been Christians in Iraq since the time of the Apostles, and they preserve their traditional worship in ancient churches and monasteries. Most Iraqi Christians still speak a modern form of Aramaic (the language of Jesus).

In 2003, around 1.5 million Christians lived in Iraq. Now that number has been reduced to 275,000.

Starting in June 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) and aligned forces began a major offensive in northern Iraq and captured the city of Mosul and many towns in the plains of Nineveh, causing the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Christians from their historic homeland. Most of them fled to the Kurdistan region and arrived in the territory of the Chaldean Archdiocese of Erbil. Since that time they have lived in refugee camps.

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Stand with Us, the Yazidis Escaping Sexual Slavery

January 2, 2018 by caldeancath Leave a Comment

‘We Need People to Stand for Us’ — The Yazidis Escaping Sexual Slavery in the Islamic State

Follow Lara Whyte on Twitter: @LaraWhyte

February 6, 2015 | 5:30 am
Nothing has changed for them. In fact, it has gotten worse!
A displaced Yazidi woman at a school turned refugee shelter in northern Iraq
A displaced Yazidi woman at a school turned refugee shelter in northern Iraq

Read the original post at Vice News. 

At 17 years old, ‘Adira’ has already tried to take her own life. A Yazidi teenager kidnapped by the Islamic State as it swept through northern Iraq last summer, herding thousands of members of the minority group into a brutal enslavement, she spent the first few days of her captivity locked in a room with several other girls, sobbing with fear and desperately trying to evade their fate.

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Middle East Christian Selections

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Lebanese bishops concerned about Christian emigration
13 December 2019

Beirut, Lebanon, Dec 12, 2019 / 06:01 pm (CNA).-   As anti-government protests continue in Lebanon, the country’s economic crisis is worsening. Banks [...]

Cardinal Sako orders muted Christmas celebrations in Iraq
13 December 2019

Baghdad, Iraq, Dec 12, 2019 / 05:00 pm (CNA).- Christmas celebrations among Iraqi Christians will be subdued this year in a show of solidarity with an [...]

Iraqi cardinal pleads for help for Christians on Nineveh Plain
9 December 2019

Mosul, Iraq, Dec 9, 2019 / 03:10 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako has appealed for financial and spiritual aid for Christians in the Middle East [...]

Read about Vian Dakhil here under category “Yazidis.” “When the Yazidis return, they will have nothing”

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Yazidi Women and Children Under Attack

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President Trump. Please, keep your Promise!

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Iraqi Christians Depend on the World

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The Catholic Church is on the side of Immigrants, regardless of their Faith or Origin

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