“The international community must respond to the outrages systematically committed by Daesh with a rock-solid resolve to prevent similar future abominations from recurring.”
Middle East
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis deplores terrorist attacks in New York, Somalia and Afghanistan
“I call on the Lord that he may convert the hearts of the terrorist and free the world of hate and that crazy homicide that abuses the name of God to disseminate death.”
Posted inFaith, News
Knights of Columbus CEO praises plan for U.S. aid to persecuted Christians
The aid will go to “faith-based and private organizations” to help those who are persecuted in the region, according to Vice President Mike Pence.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Protecting Middle East Christians is in best interest of U.S., panelists say
“If ever there was a time to collectively support the largest remaining Christian population in the Middle East, it is now.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Middle East church leaders look to U.S., but want voice in own destiny
“We have been abandoned to solve the problems we did not create.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Palestinian rivals reach preliminary deal on governing Gaza
“This is the dream and the ambition of every patriotic and honorable Palestinian, to reach unification.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Congressman urges action to aid Christians in Iraq
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith said that IS militants began committing genocide against Yezidis and Christians in Iraq in 2014, and “three years later, they are still not receiving the assistance they need from the United States and so their survival in their ancient homelands is in jeopardy.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Christians should return to Iraq as full citizens after being driven out by ISIS, cardinal says
About 100,000 Christians — among them more than 60,000 Syriac Catholics — were expelled from the Ninevah Plain by the Islamic State group in the summer of 2014 as the militants campaigned to expand their reach into Iraq.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Why do they dislike us? An American in Turkey seeks an answer.
Suzy Hansen’s ‘Notes on a Foreign Country’ is not a romantic ‘Eat Pray Love’-style tale of self-discovery.
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Salesian priest “Fr. Tom” recounts harrowing tale of his capture, liberation
An Indian Catholic priest recounts how he kept his faith alive during his long captivity after his capture in a violent attack that also left four religious sisters dead.