Nothing is more poignant than the fall and destruction of a city. What passed as a haven of civilization, art, wealth, beauty, spirituality, or just as a safe place, is reduced to ashes; its ...

There have been two solar eclipses: The first occurred on August 21st, 2017, and the second one will occur on April 8th, 2024. It appears that these two eclipses mark a giant "X marks the spot" on ...

Two summers ago, the Nineveh Plain lay in ruin, divided by a trench that stretched hundreds of miles across Northern Iraq, through the heartland of what remained of Christianity in Mesopotamia.

This video grab made on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, in Alqoosh, Iraq, shows Assyrian Christian militiamen during a training. The group also known as the Nineveh Plain Protection Units, or NPU, are one of ...

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Partially unearthed winged bull which's commonly known as Lamassu during the archaeological excavations by the leading of British archaeologist Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan. Historical view taken by ...

COMMENTARY: One beautiful sign of hope is the opening of a new church in Erbil, where the first Masses were to be celebrated at Christmas. Christian worshippers gather around a bonfire outside the ...

As the shadows lengthen in the late Yom Kippur afternoon, we sit back in our seats, reading again the fascinating story of the prophet Jonah, one of the greatest stories of repentance in all of ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Christians are vanishing from the Nineveh plains, according to church leaders in the provincial towns of Bahzani and Bashiqa, and Baghdad’s failure to provide services means ...