The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) has launched a fundraising initiative to aid Christians and other persecuted minorities in the Middle East who have been targeted by Islamic terrorists.
ANKARA (Reuters) -- Turkey's parliament stripped two pro-Kurdish lawmakers of their parliamentary status on Thursday, further reducing the presence of the HDP, the second-largest opposition party in the general assembly.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting the Islamic State (IS) on Tuesday denied reports they had handed over areas under their control southeast of Raqqa to the Syrian government.
TEHRAN -- An Iranin Assyrian Christian lawmaker hailed the great respect that non-Muslim citizens receive in his motherland, recommending Western so-called advocates of democracy to learn regard for religious minorities from Iranian leaders.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi insisted at a press conference in Baghdad on Tuesday that the referendum that Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) plans to hold in northern Iraq in "not constitutional." "The KRG claims that they won't implement the result of the referendum.
Outside St Gabriel's Monastery, a fortress-like complex in rural southeast Turkey, monks and nuns scurry between prayer and farm work. Barley, olive trees and orchards all need tending to and minds are focused on the surrounding fields.