Amnesty International condemned Iraqi authorities on Tuesday for their continued persecution of activists and protesters six years after the nationwide Tishreen demonstrations. The organization also ...

If I returned to my homeland today, more than 40 years after I left as a refugee, I would be arrested and subject to execution or life imprisonment. That’s the kind of persecution Christians face in ...

Baghdad -- With each passing year, the challenges threatening the Christian presence in Iraq continue to grow. A land that embraced Christianity in its earliest centuries has seen its Christian ...

Fr. Benedict Kiely, the founder of Nasarean.org, presents the icon of Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians, to Archbishop Benedict Younan Hano, head of the Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul, Iraq, ...

TIMISOARA, Romania, July 16 (UNHCR) - As a child, Saad* had the dreams that millions of children share - at first he wanted to become a pilot and then a professional football player. But the war in ...

Christians in northern Iraq have marked a powerful milestone of faith and survival. From Sept. 9-13, believers from the Chaldean, Assyrian, Syriac Catholic and Syriac Orthodox churches joined together ...

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Father Benedict Kiely presented the icon to Bishop Benedictus Younan Hanno, Syriac Catholic archbishop of Mosul and its dependencies, on Aug. 6 in Qaraqosh, Iraq. Bishop Benedictus Hanno receives the ...

An Iraqi asylum seeker who said he faced years of discrimination over his speech impediment has won the right to stay in the UK after successfully arguing that his political views would put him at ...