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Iraq’s Assyrian Christians: persecution and resurgence
Samir Gedhya never wanted to leave his home in Qaraqosh for the unknown, even when the Islamic State group was almost at his doorstep, sweeping through the towns of Iraq. As the menace to Qaraqosh...
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Ad in Vanity Fair tells #MeToo celebrities of women who suffer for their faith
Photo: ACN Italy An ad in the Italian edition of Vanity Fair has called for the global #MeToo campaign to include women who suffer violence because of their religion. The Vanity Fair ad includes an...
View ArticleSyria: Christians and Yazidis among 250,000 displaced in Afrin
Embed from Getty ImagesTurkish-backed Syrian rebels walk past a burning shop in Afrin, where they also set a church on fire and spray-painted its walls with jihadist slogans. Significant numbers of...
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What churches can do to help victims of sexual violence in conflict to stay...
Women affected by violence in the Central African Republic have formed self-help groups in the capital, Bangui, and run a small shop where they sell their products. (Photo: Open Doors International)...
View ArticleIraqi Christian Rita was sold four times on the IS sex slave market
Rita, a Christian woman from the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, was 26 when Islamic State invaded her town and took her captive. She was sold and bought four times as a sex slave before she was freed in 2017...
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Iraqi archbishop tells USAID delegation to hurry up aid delivery
An Iraqi Catholic archbishop has said he and other bishops are “delighted” that the US aid arm is to make good on a pledge to send aid directly to non-Muslim communities recovering from ISIS’s...
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Call for UN to establish International Day for victims of religious persecution
Local priest Father Daniel shows one of the many houses destroyed by Islamic State in the Iraqi town of Bashiqa, near Mosul, where Christians are slowly returning. (Photo courtesy of Open Doors...
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‘UN must recognise persecution of Christians in Middle East as genocide’
“The UN must defend the rights of all religious minorities, including the Christians in Iraq, Syria, and any other place where ISIS has been engaging in genocide – without delay” – ECLJ. (Photo: World...
View ArticleNobel Peace Prize for two campaigners against rape as weapon of war
Embed from Getty ImagesCongolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege (l) and survivor of IS captivity Nadia Murad (r), were awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in fighting sexual violence in...
View Article‘It’s time to be real: what happens in Iraq is ethnic cleansing’ – UK analyst
Embed from Getty ImagesIraqi Christian children are playing in the grounds of a church in Erbil where their families fled to when Islamic state invaded the region. What Iraq’s Christians want from the...
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