CatholicOnline: In the United States, ISIS is our greatest threat, but across Iraq, the people believe differently. According to most Iraqis, the United States is literally and deliberately supplying ISIS fighters. In retaliation, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, has suggested he … Continue reading
AsiaNews: For the first time in months, Iraqi soldiers, Kurdish peshmerga and Shiite militias have launched a counter-offensive against the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. Thanks to the support of US air raids two days ago they broke … Continue reading
Aleteia: ISIS, the radical Islamist group that forced Christians out of Mosul with the threat of death, has taken control of most of the villages of the Nineveh Plain, the northern area where Iraqi Christians have hunkered down in what is … Continue reading
Rorate Caeli: The Christians of Iraq face an enormous tragedy The Christians of Mosul (Nineveh Province, Iraq), horrified, have fled the city with only the clothes they were wearing. Their churches have been profaned and on August 2, a mass migration … Continue reading
NBCNews, from Reuters: A series of bomb attacks killed at least 22 people across Iraq on Monday, part of the country’s worst wave of violence in around five years. At least 16 people died and 41 others were injured when a suicide … Continue reading
AP report: Iraqi Christians on Wednesday called off Christmas festivities across the country as al-Qaida insurgents threatened more attacks on a beleaguered community still terrified from a bloody siege at a Baghdad church two months earlier. Read more of this … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: In a pathetic interview with BBC, London-based Archbishop Athanasios Dawood expressed his frustration, after the attack last week on the Bagdad Catholic cathedral, over the lack of protection given to Christians in Iraq and the new hatred that … Continue reading
Randy Sly reports for Catholic Online: “Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended,” the president stated. “Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their … Continue reading
So, who are we “liberating” over there? Who were we and NATO “liberating” in Bosnia and why are our troops still there? Who are we “liberating” in Afghanistan? CNA Reports: “There’ll be no room in Iraq for the Christian infidels … Continue reading
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