Posts Tagged ‘iraq’
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CSW: Pastor Nadarkhani still alive
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is refuting claims that Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani has been executed in Iran.
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Iranian Pastor Nadarkhani believed to be dead
An Anglican vicar in Iraq has said that besieged Iranian Pastor Youssef Nadarkhani is dead.
Writing on his Facebook page today (Thursday, March 7), Canon Andrew White, who serves St. George’s Church in Baghdad, said he was m...
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Will we be their voice?
Christians worldwide just celebrated the birth of Jesus. For many in the West this was a festive season marked by worship services, gift-giving and time with family and friends.
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Iraqi Christians feel ‘forgotten,’ fleeing to other countries
As the Middle East continues to be in turmoil, an Anglican minister serving in Iraq says that he us seeing more believers fleeing Iraq.
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Middle East riots fueled by competition between radicals, moderates
Anti-American riots that have spread to more than a dozen countries across the Middle East are a sign of fissures between radical and more moderate Islamists that are vying for power as their societies undergo change, Middle Ea...
Islamic Rioters Attack Christian Shops in Northern Iraq
Attacks against Christian Assyrian businesses in northern Iraq over the weekend, which local sources said were organized by a pro-Islamic political party, marked the first such destruction of Christian establishments in the Kur...
The Double Lives of Iraq’s Christian Children
Little Nuria and her sisters love singing songs about Jesus. But when people Nuria doesn’t know ask her if she’s a Christian, she doesn’t know what to answer; instead, she looks questioningly at her mother or father. She is 6 y...
Blast near church in Kirkuk, Iraq injures 13
ISTANBUL, August 3 (Compass Direct News) – A car blast outside a Syrian Catholic church in Kirkuk, Iraq yesterday morning left 13 wounded as police located and disarmed two more car bombs targeting churches in the city, accordi...
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Iraq opens Christian church with government support
For the first time since 2003, when theU.S. led an invasion into the country, Iraq inaugurated yesterday a Chaldean parish church in a village some six miles away from Kirkuk. The Mar Bulos (Saint Paul the Apostle) church is si...
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Media fails to cover declining Christian population in Israel
Media has failed to focus attention on the declining number of Christians in the Holy Land, including Nazareth and Bethlehem. According to the Calgary Herald, 80 percent of Bethlehem was once Christian, but today it has plummet...