As the war in the Middle East continues to escalate, with the spectre of a broader regional conflict looming, the Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad, Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako, has voiced his alarm. "As Patriarch, I am deeply concerned. No one knows where this war will lead," he told Vatican News today.
A chapel and Christian housing complex in northern Iraq has been damaged by a rocket and drone attack. No injuries have been reported at McGivney House, affiliated with the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil, after the incident in the evening of 4th March.
Baghdad -- Rana Georges, an Iraqi Assyrian woman, remains in detention three days after security forces arrested her in Baghdad following the circulation of a video clip on social media showing her celebrating the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
As part of their regular consultations on the situation of the Assyrian people in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), as well as regional developments and their impact on the community, four national parties held a joint meeting at the headquarters of the Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party in Hadyab, Arba'ilo (Erbil), KRI.
Melbourne's Greek community will soon host a significant cultural and academic event highlighting new research into the historical memory and recognition of the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian genocides. This Landmark genocide study by Dr Kritikakos to be presented in Melbourne, offers what scholars desscribe as the first comprehensive comparative analysis.
Christians have been rooted in the Middle East as minority communities since the birth of the religion, but their numbers are dwindling amid conflict and jihadist attacks. Today they make up only four percent of the region's population, down from 20 percent before the First World War, Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said this month.