By Blanca Ruiz Erbil, Iraq, Jan 9, 2015 / 12:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Emil Nona is the Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, the Iraqi city overrun by the Islamic State last summer. Since then, he has brought the voice of the Christians of Iraq to the West. “For us the faith is everything. It is our life, our identity, our history and our way of life. We can’t separate ourselves from our faith in any way,” Archbishop Nona told CNA. “Our faith, which has been in this land for more … Continue reading →
(CNA/EWTN News).- Boko Haram’s expansion has meant murders, forced conversion, and forcible expulsion from homes, causing Catholics in Nigeria to pray and to reach out to help and console the militant Islamist group’s victims. “Brothers and sisters, there is no better time to storm the heavens with prayers and petitions than now,” Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos said during a national prayer pilgrimage Nov. 13-14. Thousands of people have recently lost their homes and their loved ones due to Boko Haram, he said. “Our darling innocent school girls from Chibok … Continue reading →
This is the price list that Islamic extremists follow when selling kidnapped women. It shows how much money they can make selling Christian and Yazidi women as slaves.
Dated on October 20th, it displays the different prices that match each age.
The age of the women vary from 1 to 50 years. Girls from 1 to 9 years-old are sold for around 140 euros. Women older than 40 usually can be bought for 50 euros. The rest of them are sold at half price.
According to the “rules,” one person cannot buy more than three women at once. Iraqis, Syrians and people from the Persian Gulf, however, can.
This video was found several days ago by Kurdish troops on the cell phone of a Jihadist. It proves the existence of a sex slave market. Many radicals are pictured, boast about the number of Yazidi women they have bought.
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – A commitment, explicit and personal, to take charge of the defense of the Christian community in Iraq has been expressed by the Prime Minister of Iraq, Haider al Abadi, in the afternoon of Sunday, November 2 in a meeting with the leaders of the Christian Churches in Baghdad. This was reported to Agenzia Fides by Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis I, who led the delegation of Bishops and prelates received by the Premier. “In the 40-minute talk – says to Fides the Primate of the Chaldean Church … Continue reading →
During the Synod on the Family the date was announced, following the wishes of Pope Francis, that the consistory already envisaged for 20 October would be on the Middle East. The Patriarch of the Chaldeans, H.B. Louis Sako, explains to Oasis what is expected of it. By Marialaura Conte Interview with H.B. Louis Sako, the Patriarch of Baghdad of the Chaldeans. That the truth of the tragedy being experienced by Christians in the Middle East is listened to and at the same time what each member of the synod can do … Continue reading →
The famed “Green Church” in Tikrit, Iraq was reduced to ashes. Militants from the Islamic State surrounded the church with explosives and detonated. The church was a historical monument that was built 700 years after Christ. The militants are scorching the Christian roots of the Middle East.
At the same time, the constant stream of refugees continues to grow and the humanitarian crisis is multiplying.
Turkey is now receiving thousands of displaced people. The country opened its borders to allow more than 130,000 refugees escaping the violence.
SELINE UNAL
ACNUR
“It is the biggest influx that Turkey has seen so far, and the needs are urgent and so big, most of them are women and children. We are trying to do as much as we can co-ordinating with the officials here but it is really not enough”.
The refugees carry the few belongings they were able to salvage before fleeing the fighting between Islamic State militants and Kurdish soldiers.
They made the journey in exhausting conditions. This woman and 16 of her relatives were able to reach the border safe and sound. Although 8 months pregnant, she carried a baby in her arms.
HANINE
Syrian Refugee
“We were all terrified and we fled our houses because of the bombs. Every night we would come and sleep here at the border and then go back to our houses a bit in the morning, all our children are sick, what can we do? May God help us.”
Recently, the Islamic State has taken over more than 60 cities in northern Syria, close to the Turkish border.
Pope Francis will be traveling to Turkey from November 29th – 30th where the Chaldean Christian community has experienced a notable growth with the arrival of thousands of Iraqi refugees.
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