IRAQ: PRAYING FOR A PEACEMAKER – WHAT DO ELECTIONS MEAN FOR THE REMAINING CHRISTIANS?
ABIGAIL FRYMANN ROUCH, in an article first published on World Watch Monitor, looks at what this weekend’s elections mean for Christians in Iraq…
EGYPT: “GIVING FREEDOM TO WOMEN IS SOMETHING REMARKABLE” – PROTESTANT HEAD
World Watch Monitor reports on how, while the issue of equality for women is gaining traction in Egypt including in some sections of the church, there’s still a “long way to go”…
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: MOSUL CHRISTMAS MASS HAILED A “VICTORY OVER IS” AS SUNNI YOUTH INSTALL GIANT CHRISTMAS TREE
World Watch Monitor reports on how Iraqi Christians celebrated Christmas in Mosul following its liberation from the so-called Islamic State…
BOOKS: ABDUCTED – ONE CLERIC’S ACCOUNT OF HIS KIDNAPPING IN IRAQ
A World Watch Monitor correspondent looks at an Iraqi bishop’s gripping account of his abduction at the hands of violent Islamic extremists…