As some Iraqi Christians make a slow return to the region around Mosul following the defeat of the Islamic State group, many say it will take time to rebuild their lives and even longer to rebuild their trust of those who betrayed them.
Iraqi Christians need time to rebuild trust
London cardinal calls for prayers for victims of Westminster attack
British media reports, a “lone wolf” assailant sped his car over Westminster Bridge toward the British Parliament killing 5 and injuring 40 people in the terrorist attack.
Priest imprisoned by Islamic State thinks Canada can do more for Syria
Canada and Western nations can and must do more to stop the war in Syria, said Father Jacques Mourad, a Syriac Catholic priest who was abducted and held captive for nearly five months by the Islamic State group.
Once Iraq recaptures Mosul, people will still need help, says archbishop
The military operation to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group is not the only solution needed to get life back to normal, said Iraqi Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil.
Some Iraqis hopeful, but aid groups have concerns about Mosul offensive
Iraqi Christians are cautiously welcoming the start of the battle for Mosul and the Ninevah Plain, their ancestral homeland of the past 14 centuries from which they were brutally driven out by the Islamic State group more than two years ago.
It’s not right to equate Islam with violence, pope says
Speaking to journalists aboard his return flight from Krakow, Poland, July 31, the pope also stressed that violence exists in all religions, including Catholicism, and it cannot be pinned to one single religion.
Dominican nuns keep hope alive among displaced in northern Iraq
IRBIL, Iraq (CNS) — When the Islamic State group rolled across Iraq’s Ninevah Plain in 2014, tens of thousands of Christians fled for their lives to […]