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ISIS Plundered Assyrians As They Fled Mosul; Families March 42 Miles

ISIS setup checkpoints at the Araby and Shallalat neighborhoods (AlSada and Biawaizah) and robbed and plundered Assyrians who were fleeing the city. ISIS took...

“Our Worst Fears Are Coming True, and We Do Not Know How to React”: Chaldean Bishop

According to sources known to Aleteia, but kept anonymous due to security concerns, a number of mosques in the city of Mosul, and through loudspeakers,...

ISIS Abducting, Killing, Expelling Minorities

On June 29, ISIS abducted two nuns and three Christian orphans, whom it held for 15 days. Around that same time, ISIS issued orders...

ISIS in Mosul Marks Christian Homes, Patriarch Issues Urgent Appeal

The word comes from the name "Nestorian," historically attributed to the the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, though it is incorrect....

Iraq Christians Told to Convert or Face Death

In response, the group says in the letter that Christians must either convert to Islam, pay a special tax on non-Muslims known as jiziya,...

Captive Women in Syria Herded and Sold in Slave Markets

This is a reminder of what Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini, a popular Salafi preacher in Egypt, said on Hikma TV back in 2011.  He explained...

Meriam’s Case Highlights Plight of Sudan’s Christians

The South Sudanese population had fought for more than 40 years, in Africa’s longest civil war, against domination by the Islamic north. But because...

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