Personal envoy returns from Iraq to brief pope
Even in the difficult trial they are facing, Iraqi Christians are offering an extraordinary witness of faith to the Church and the world, a witness “deeply moving” for Cardinal Fernando Filoni, who has just returned from their country after completing ...
Iraq's Assyrians Still Exist -- for Now
When I attended Stanford in the 1990s, explaining my ethnic background to fellow students was a challenge. I am Chaldean. Or as my more scripted response became: "We are ethnic Assyrians from northern Iraq who belong to the Chaldean Rite of the Catholic ...
America’s War in Iraq: Broad Ambitions, Few Details
The Obama Administration’s newest war on Iraq has been going for only a portion of the current month, but has already been expanded repeatedly and dramatically in scope, initially presented to the public as a “humanitarian intervention” and since ...
ISIS Militants Capture Air Base From Syrian Government Forces
BAGHDAD - Extremist fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria seized a military base in northern Syria on Sunday from forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, further solidifying control inside their self-declared Islamic state spanning the Syria-Iraq border. The fall of the Tabqa air base ...
Speed News: Iraqi FM urges global action against ISIL terrorists
>Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has called for international support for Iraq’s fight against Takfiri terrorists, as Iraqi forces try to purge the terror elements from more areas across the country....
IL CHIARIMENTO DEL CAOS.
E' tempo di ragionare sull'ISIS e su tutte le questioni che si stanno ampiamente dibattendo ovunque. Eccezion fatta per il livello complottista sulle primavere arabe, che per me sono nate spontaneamente da parte di piccole minoranze e poi sono finite ad avere un ruolo non rivoluzionario per la manca ...
Iraqi FM urges global action against ISI
Iraqi FM urges global action against ISIL terrorists – Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has called for international support for Iraq’s fight against Takfiri terrorists, as Iraqi forces try to purge the terror elements from more areas across the country…. http://ow.ly/2Mlxhp
Day 49, A Different "Shavuot"
According to my friend Miriam's facebook update, this is the 49th day of this unending war with the Gazan Arab Hamas terrorists. Miriam lives in southern Israel and keeps people updated about real life there in her blog, Miriam's Words. The number forty-nine when describing days has a lot of signifi ...
Fever Vs. Mystics Series Review: Indiana Capitalize On Washington Turnovers To Advance In 2014 Wnba Playoffs – Yahoo Sports
In Game 1, that was undermined primarily by a combination of Fever rebounding and free throw attempts. For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://sports.yahoo.com/news/fever-vs-mystics-series-review-150003647.html As vacation winds down, Obama faces calls for ...
Blame Bush
Good grief! Will the Obama administration and its minions ever accept responsibility for the state of the nation. This morning I watched ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos. On his panel of "experts" were David Plouffe, former Senior White House Advisor to Obama, and Donna Edwards, Democrat con ...
Stop Islamists by taking the battle to Syria, U.S. general urges
GLOBALANDMAIL The Islamic State group cannot be defeated unless the United States or its partners take on the Sunni militants in Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday. “This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to ...
Stop Islamists by taking the battle to Syria, U.S. general urges
GLOBALANDMAIL The Islamic State group cannot be defeated unless the United States or its partners take on the Sunni militants in Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday. “This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to ...
Full Transcript of Pope’s In-Flight Interview From Korea
Originally at: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/full-transcript-of-popes-in-flight-interview-from-korea#ixzz3B0pYOv8q by ALAN HOLDREN AND ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI/CNA ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Speaking to journalists aboard the Aug. 18 flight to Italy from South Korea, Pope Francis said he supports in ...
