More than 200 mass graves with thousands of bodies discovered in Iraq
World Watch Monitor More than 200 mass graves containing the remains of thousands of people killed by Islamic State have been discovered in northern and western Iraq, according to a UN report that was released on Tuesday. The report by UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the UN Human Rights Office documents the existence […]
Iraq’s young people must lead its rebuilding, says archbishop
World Watch Monitor The rebuilding of Iraq should be guided by its young people, says an archbishop who took in 700 students from Mosul University after the occupation of the city by Islamic State in June, 2014. Bishop Yousif Thoma Mirkis of Kirkuk, 170 kilometres south-east of Mosul, recently visited the university and reunited with […]
POSTCARDS: NINEVEH CHRISTIANS STILL TALKING OF EMIGRATION, DESPITE IRAQI-KURD PEACE AGREEMENT
World Watch Monitor reports from Iraq on uncertainly facing Christians on the Nineveh Plains…
Chaldean archbishop urges Iraqi Catholics to stay and help rebuild
RNS Iraqi Christians who are considering leaving the country should stay put and play a role in rebuilding their war-shattered homeland, a senior prelate said in Paris. “For me, staying and resisting as a Christian minority is the right way,” Chaldean Archbishop Yousif Mirkis of Kirkuk told reporters during a visit to France to raise […]