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…
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…
Christians who fled IS displaced again as Iraqi and Kurdish forces clash
World Watch Monitor Christians have been forced to return to the internally displaced people camps they used after Islamic State took over the Nineveh Plains. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor Fighting has erupted between Iraqi and Kurdish forces in a predominantly Christian town in northern Iraq, causing residents to flee. Around 900 families have fled Telskuf […]
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 […]