Not going to happen
Catholic Culture reports the pleading of the Prelate of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq, Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako. Excerpt: The same is true with regard to the Muslim community, whose statements about the barbaric acts in the name of their religion practiced against the life, dignity and ...
Is Persecution Just a Myth?
I must apologize to my readers for not having written a review of The Myth of Persecution by Candida Moss of the University of Notre Dame. I have to admit that I put her book (whether fairly or unfairly) in the category of “negative attention seeker.” What I mean by that phrase is that some people s ...
Almost 400,000 Urgently Need Shelter in the Kurdish Region of Iraq
Source: Save the Children Country: Iraq Host Communities Pushed to Breaking Point; Families Who Fled the Bloodshed in Iraq are Sleeping on Roofs, in Schools and Abandoned Buildings Media Contact Francine Uenuma 202.450.9153 (M) Fairfield, Conn. (August 26, 2014) — The humanitarian impact of the figh ...
The conundrum of memory
Sometimes I get to wondering, sometimes I get confused about what our conservative brethren are trying to tell us. I was reminded recently that my former Republican congressman Tom Rooney (R-FL) amongst others, vociferously threatened to impeach the president for having provided air traffic control ...
Iran provided weapons to Iraq's Kurds: Barzani
Arbil (Iraq) (AFP) - Iran was the first country to provide Iraq's embattled autonomous Kurdish region with weapons to fight off jihadist-led militants, president Massud Barzani said on Tuesday. "The Islamic Republic of Iran was the first state to help us..
