(CNN) — The Sinjar Mountains rise suddenly from the endless desert of northern Iraq, a ridge of craggy rock some 50 kilometers (30 miles) long, running east to west. Barren and windswept, some 1,400 meters (4,600 feet) high, they make a forbidding sight. But for centuries, they have been the refuge of the desperate and…
Iraqi journalist Dahlia al-Aqidi recently launched the “We Are All Christians” campaign to protest the displacement of Mosul’s Christians at the hands of the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL). Al-Aqidi, who is from a Sunni family, wore a cross to confirm her support for this cause. The journalist, who works for “Houna Baghdad”,…
Earlier this week reports came out of IRAQ that the Islamist extremist group ISIS was murdering hundred of people, and driving thousands out of their homes and into the mountains of IRAQ. Here is the report from Christian Solidarity International (CSI), also reported in some of the major media: In the last three weeks, the…
July 26 2014 – Irish Times – A senior Iraqi bishop has urged the world to act after Islamic hardliners drove Mosul’s Christians from the northern Iraqi city, effectively ending a presence there dating back to Christianity’s earliest years. “The world must act, speak out, consider human rights,” Chaldean Catholic Bishop Shlemon Warduni said on…
July 25, 2104 – ROME – A mother put on death row for refusing to reject Christianity met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday, just hours after she fled Sudan. Meriam Ibrahim was flown out of the country with her American husband and two young children. She was blessed by the pontiff during a private audience and…
19 July 2014 – From AhramOnline, and Egyptian news source: “On Friday, Mosul’s mosques called through loudspeakers for Christians to leave, after centuries of being part of the once cosmopolitan city’s social fabric. Fadi said he could not afford to flee and argued that the prospects for those who did were hardly better. Islamic State (IS)…
This just in today… “Maiduguri: Suspected Islamist militants killed dozens of people in an attack on three Nigerian villages, including one targeting worshippers at a church, a few kilometres from Chibok, the scene of an abduction of more than 200 school girls. Residents said the gunmen riding on motorcycles opened fire on worshippers and pursued them…
Very sad. Another young person lashes out and kills seven classmates, because he felt “rejected” and without hope for the future. He posted a video outlining his feelings about being rejected and without love, and his plan to have revenge. “Severely mentally disturbed” is how he is being labeled by the authorities. Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/24/elliot-rodger-video-confession_n_5385175.html So…
ABC News – May 19, 2014: Lawyers for a pregnant Sudanese woman plan to appeal an Islamic judge’s decision that she be flogged with 100 lashes and then be hanged for marrying a Christian man and converting. Amnesty International and Western embassies are expressing alarm over the harsh sentence meted out to Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag,…
Here is a recent post by Dr. Jerry Pattengale….. “How the ‘Jesus’ Wife’ Hoax Fell Apart” By Jerry Pattengale May 1, 2014 7:17 p.m. ET In September 2012, Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King announced the discovery of a Coptic (ancient Egyptian) gospel text on a papyrus fragment that contained the phrase “Jesus said to them,…
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