POSTCARDS: IRAQ’S ASSYRIAN CHRISTIANS – PERSECUTION AND RESURGENCE
ZARA SARVARIAN, in an article first published by World Watch Monitor, reports from Qaraqosh in Iraq where Assyrian Christians are rebuilding their lives…
More than 800,000 call on UN to protect Christians in Middle East
World Watch Monitor A petition signed by more than 800,000 people was being presented at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, calling for the protection of Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria, and recognition of the key role faith leaders can play in rebuilding efforts post-Islamic State. The ‘Hope for the […]
Christians on alert as Iraqi forces take over Nineveh Plains
World Watch Monitor Christian returnees have lunch together in Bashiqa, August, 2017. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor Christians who have returned to the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq, three years after fleeing Islamic State militants, are on high alert now Iraqi forces have retaken some of the disputed region from Kurdish forces. Father Poulos, one of […]
IRAQ: CHRISTIANS RETURNING HOME FACE MANY HURDLES
World Watch Monitor reports on the difficulties facing Christians as they return to homes in ares previously occupied by the so-called Islamic State…
‘Christian’ town freed en route to Mosul
World Watch Monitor As anti-Islamic State (IS) forces continue their operations to recapture Iraq’s second city of Mosul, Christians from towns around it have welcomed the retaking of their two-years’ deserted homes. According to sources monitoring the situation on the ground, Bartella, a town with a significant Christian presence prior to the IS invasion, was […]