“If this is not genocide, then what is genocide?” asks Iraqi archbishop

World Watch Monitor One more wave of persecution and Christianity could be erased from Iraq, a church leader has said. Habib Nafali, Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Basra, said the killing and displacement of Iraq’s Christians and “systematic violence” towards them was intended to force them out of Iraq. Security is still a concern for Iraqi […]
Postcards: Iraq’s Assyrian Christians – persecution and resurgence

ZARA SARVARIAN, in an article first published by World Watch Monitor, reports from Qaraqosh in Iraq where Assyrian Christians are rebuilding their lives…
Sweden opens church for 5,000 Christians who fled Middle East
World Watch Monitor A new church opened last week in the Swedish town of Södertalje, 30 kilometres south of Stockholm, for the estimated 5,000 to 6,000 Chaldean Catholics who have resettled there after fleeing their homes in the Middle East. Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne, Germany, who participated in the inaugural service, explained to German […]
First Christian school to open in Iraq since 1970s
World Watch Monitor Iraq has given permission for the first new Christian school to open in the country since 1974, when education was nationalised, reports Asia News. The Catholic primary school will open in September, 2018, in Basra, near the country’s Gulf coast. Chaldean Archbishop of Basra, Alhava Habib Jajou, said he hopes the school will […]
US judge blocks deportation of Chaldeans and other Iraqis

RNS/Detroit Free Press Protesters in front of the McNamara Federal Building in Detroit chant “Stop deportations, bring our families home” on 14th June. PICTURE: Detroit Free Press/Allie Gross A federal judge has ruled that 114 Iraqi immigrants facing deportation can stay in the US for at least two more weeks as he sorts out whether the […]