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Is the West鱿鱼视频app tepid response to the religious cleansing of Syrian and Iraqi Christians a sign of naivety, greed or maybe cowardice? Or is there a Machiavellian strategy to ease religious tension in the region by silently watching a 2,000-year-old Christian presence simply fade away?

AINKAWA, Iraq 鈥� Iraqi Christians appear divided about whether they will be able to return home after Islamic State militants are flushed out of the battle-scarred Ninevah Plains region. They say their safety must be guaranteed at all costs.

IRBIL, Iraq 鈥� The upcoming military offensive to root out Islamic State militants from Mosul and surrounding villages will be a "huge challenge," the United Nations says, as it expects about 1.5 million people to flee the warfare in a short amount of time.

WASHINGTON 鈥� Security tops the list of what Christians of Iraq and Syria want before they'll consider returning to areas they fled when the Islamic State and other extremist groups took over.

MONTREAL 鈥撀�It was a record year for donations to Aid to the Church in Need, but it is not exactly something the organization is celebrating.

OTTAWA 鈥� Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) Canada national director Carl Hetu reports Catholic aid agencies contributed $150 million in 2015 to help the people of Iraq and Syria.

Give credit to the federal government for recently acknowledging that the systematic murder, rape and enslavement of the Yazidi people of Iraq and Syria constitutes genocide. But why stop there?聽

LONDON 鈥� Catholic Relief 鱿鱼视频app and other international aid agencies are working with local Christian and Muslim charities to help about 70,000 people fleeing Fallujah, Iraq, as conflict deepens between Islamic State militants and Iraqi forces seeking to regain the beleaguered town in Anbar province.

BEIRUT 鈥撀�Syriac patriarchs, marking the two-year anniversary since the Islamic State group expelled Christians from a large part of Iraq, denounced "the ethno-religious genocide" of their people and called for the liberation of those areas.

AMMAN, Jordan 鈥� Iraqi refugee women who fled Islamic State group violence in their homeland have appealed to Pope Francis for help, sending a hand-sewn mantle and imploring him to pray for them and for peace in their country.

VATICAN CITY 鈥� Pope Francis is calling on Catholics to play a part in the 鈥渞ebirth鈥� of a united Europe that opens its doors to refugees.

Good fences make good neighbours, wrote Robert Frost. But don鈥檛 try telling that to the bishop of Eisenstadt, Austria.

BAGHDAD 鈥� Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad urged Iraq's leaders to put an end to the "institutional, economic and security deterioration" in the country.

WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious freedom remains under 鈥渟erious and sustained assault鈥� around the globe, according to a new annual report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

UNITED NATIONS 鈥撀燱hile religious freedom in much of the Middle East is under siege and the civil war in Syria seems to have no end in sight, Carl Anderson, CEO of the Knights of Columbus, and others called the United Nations to action.