Posts Tagged: ISIS Christian persecution
Knights of Columbus Launches Campaign to Raise Funds for Mideast Christians
JNS.org - The Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization, has launched a massive nationwide advertising campaign to spread awareness and raise funds...
Egyptian Christians Displaced Amid Islamic State Terror, Allege Government Neglect
JNS.org - Amid growing concern regarding the Islamic State terror group’s increased targeting of Christians in Egypt, displaced Coptic Christians in the country’s northern Sinai claim...
Former Obama Administration Official on Killing of Egypt’s Christians by ISIS: ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’
JNS.org - A former Obama administration Department of Homeland Security official said this past weekend of the Islamic State terror group's mass murder of Egyptian Coptic...
State Department Calls Islamic State Actions Genocide
JNS.org - Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Thursday that the U.S. State Department has designated the Islamic State terror group's actions against Christians, Yazidis, and...
Clinton Calls Islamic State Persecution of Mideast Christians, Yazidis ‘Genocide’
JNS.org - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that the Islamic State is committing genocide against Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities in the...
Anti-Islamist Libyan General to Meet With Israeli Officials in Jordan
JNS.org - Libyan General Khalifa Haftar, who is attempting to form a coalition to fight Islamists in Libya, will reportedly meet with Israeli officials...
Islamic State Militants Abduct at Least 90 From Christian Villages in Syria
JNS.org- The Islamic State terror group has abducted at least 90 Assyrian Christians from their villages in northeastern Syria, a Syrian human rights groups tracking...
Iraqi Christian Village Holds First Mass Since Islamic State Invasion
JNS.org - The small Iraqi Christian village of Telskuf, located in Iraq's contested Nineveh Province, on Sunday held its first mass since last summer's...
Pope Francis, Jewish Leaders Mark Rosh Hashanah and Discuss Mideast Christians
JNS.org - Pope Francis on Wednesday hosted a delegation of 40 Jewish leaders to mark the upcoming Rosh Hashanah holiday and to discuss pressing...
Jewish Group Partners With IsraAID to Help Iraqi Christians, Yazidis
JNS.org - The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is partnering with the Israeli international relief organization IsraAID to help deliver urgent humanitarian aid to beleaguered...
Mideast Christian Leaders Call Arab States ‘Timid’ in Confronting Islamic State
JNS.org - Prominent Middle East Christian leaders say that Muslim leaders have been "timid" in their response to the massacres by the Islamic State,...
The Foley Beheading and Israel’s PR Problem
The video of the beheading of American journalist James Foley went viral this week, in "Žspite of Twitter and YouTube efforts to remove it...
Vatican Hints at Breaking Interfaith Relations With Muslim Leaders Over Christian Slaughter
JNS.org - The Vatican has called on Muslim leaders to "unequivocally condemn" the violence being carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and...
Iraqi Prime Minister Amasses Troops in Protest to Ousting
JNS.org - Iraq's president Fouad Masoum has ousted Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who has been in power for eight years, by naming a new...
