Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:35:36 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb /home/international/item/28637-iraqi-priest-rebuilds-church-in-war-torn-mosul-hopes-returning-christians-will-follow /home/international/item/28637-iraqi-priest-rebuilds-church-in-war-torn-mosul-hopes-returning-christians-will-follow MOSUL, Iraq (CNS) -- Christians are cautiously returning to Mosul, the once-bustling Iraqi city that for three years was the capital of the caliphate established by the Islamic State group.
]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Mon, 17 Dec 2018 07:05:17 -0500 /home/international/item/28608-new-u-s-law-will-provide-relief-to-genocide-victims-of-islamic-state-in-iraq-syria /home/international/item/28608-new-u-s-law-will-provide-relief-to-genocide-victims-of-islamic-state-in-iraq-syria WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has signed into law the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018, which will provide humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria and hold accountable Islamic State perpetrators of genocide.
]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:04:49 -0500 /home/international/item/28495-islamic-extremism-spreading-globally-with-defeat-of-islamic-state-in-middle-east-report-says /home/international/item/28495-islamic-extremism-spreading-globally-with-defeat-of-islamic-state-in-middle-east-report-says LONDON – The threat to religious freedom from Muslim fundamentalists is rapidly becoming a global phenomenon following the military defeat of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, said a new report.
]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:34:41 -0500 /home/international/item/28152-aid-groups-bishop-sound-alarm-over-humanitarian-crisis-affecting-21-million-in-yemen /home/international/item/28152-aid-groups-bishop-sound-alarm-over-humanitarian-crisis-affecting-21-million-in-yemen AMMAN, Jordan – Aid agencies and Catholic officials are sounding the alarm on Yemen's spiraling humanitarian crisis, calling on the combatants to end the war and make badly need assistance available.
]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Tue, 09 Oct 2018 08:40:46 -0400 /home/international/item/27199-violent-extremists-tarnish-image-of-their-own-religion-cardinal-says /home/international/item/27199-violent-extremists-tarnish-image-of-their-own-religion-cardinal-says VATICAN – Meeting with a top Muslim leader in Saudi Arabia, the Vatican's chief interreligious dialogue official called for the equal treatment of people of all religions, saying discrimination and double standards based on religious affiliation only increase Islamophobia and Christianophobia.
]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:12:47 -0400 /home/international/item/27060-no-holy-week-observance-planned-in-war-torn-philippine-city /home/international/item/27060-no-holy-week-observance-planned-in-war-torn-philippine-city MANILA, Philippines – There will be no Holy Week observance this year in Marawi almost a year after extremist gunmen occupied the southern Philippine city.]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:16:00 -0400 /home/international/item/27052-pope-praises-french-policeman-who-gave-his-life-to-save-hostage /home/international/item/27052-pope-praises-french-policeman-who-gave-his-life-to-save-hostage VATICAN – Pope Francis joined leaders praising a French police officer who "gave his life out of a desire to protect people" during a terrorist attack.
]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:38:54 -0400 /home/international/item/26842-time-to-be-honest-in-dialogue-with-muslims-chaldean-archbishop-says /home/international/item/26842-time-to-be-honest-in-dialogue-with-muslims-chaldean-archbishop-says WASHINGTON – If Christians in the Middle East are going to be "honest" with their Muslim dialogue partners, said Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, Muslims will have to acknowledge that the persecution of Christians in the region did not start with the Islamic State's rise to power in 2014.
]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Sat, 17 Feb 2018 08:24:58 -0500 /home/international/item/26827-islamic-state-has-landed-in-lawless-somalia-bishop-says /home/international/item/26827-islamic-state-has-landed-in-lawless-somalia-bishop-says NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) – As it loses its grip in the Middle East, the Islamic State is finding a foothold in Somalia, said a bishop who oversees the Catholic Church in the troubled country.
]]> canadiancatholicnews@catholicregister.org (Canadian Catholic News) International Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:53:16 -0500 /home/international/item/26322-victims-of-islamic-state-in-focus-at-un-forum /home/international/item/26322-victims-of-islamic-state-in-focus-at-un-forum NEW YORK – Persecuted religious minorities in Syria and Iraq deserve a better future after suffering at the hands of the Islamic State group.]]> International Tue, 07 Nov 2017 08:19:24 -0500