Tag Archive for Assyrian Christians

Assyrian Christians visit Israel, inspired by Jewish history they hope to emulate Israel’s resilience

Iraqi Christian youth leaders from North America are in Israel to witness its diversity, discuss the folly of BDS and harness the inspiration of a shared history in the rebuilding of their homeland after ISIS.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

 

The terrorist attack on Friday in Jerusalem brought back memories of terror in Iraq for Diana, a member of a group of Assyrian youth leaders touring the country. “You go out and you don’t know if you are going to come back safely,” she recalls. “I saw people acting normally as if nothing happened, life goes on, memories came back.”

Her family of Chaldean Catholics left Kirkuk in Iraq in 2008 and moved to Canada, part of a wave of immigration of Christians who have left Iraq since the 1990s. Continue Reading »

EU Already Pressuring Israel As They Ignore Plight of Assyrian Christians Just Miles Away

ISIS is systematically destroying the Christian Civilization in Syria and the world watches, as thousands of traumatized Assyrian Christians flee from their homes & villages, while being attacked.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Waiting in an aid line outside Lebanon’s capital Beirut, Assyrian Christian Francie Yaacoub remembers the well-stocked home she left behind in Syria as she fled advancing Islamic State (ISIS) group jihadists.

Protest for Middle Eastern Christians (file)

“We left behind a house full of everything. Why do we now have to stand at the church door?” she asked quietly as she waited to receive aid at the Assyrian diocese of Sid al-Boushriyeh, reports AFP.

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