Brisbane plays a role as churches help Iraqi Christians displaced by Islamic State
By CNS and staff reporters WALKING through the mainly Christian town outside of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, it's ...
By CNS and staff reporters WALKING through the mainly Christian town outside of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, it's ...
Together again, at last: Ninety-seven-year-old Shami Eso (centre) with (from left) her daughter-in-law Ekhlas Ayoob, Jameel Asho, Amer Asho and ...
Devastation: The reflection of a church struck by suicide bombers is seen in Surabaya, Indonesia, May ...
Joyful: St Joseph’s and St Anthony’s Bracken Ridge parish priest Fr Gerry Hefferan with celbrating Iraqi ...
A new school start: St Joseph’s school principal, Gary Creevey, with Iraqi refugee pupils Dominic Matloob, ...
Children suffer: A Syrian girl looks out from a UNICEF tent in an informal settlement near ...
On guard: Commander of the Vatican police force Domenico Giani keeps watch as Pope Francis arrives ...
Prayers for peace: Iraqi Christians attend Mass at a church in Baghdad on March 1. Christian ...
Evacuating: A member of the Kurdish Security Forces holds an injured civilian to evacuate him in ...
Safe haven: A displaced Syrian girl finds temporary shelter at a school in Damascus, Syria, on ...
More refugees: Syrian refugees warm themselves around a fire on December 3 in Ankara, Turkey. About ...
Death threats: Bishop Giovanni Martinelli of Tripoli, is refusing to leave Libya despite receiving death threats.Photo: ...
Persecuted: Displaced Iraqi Yezidi children stand in the doorway of an unfinished building in Shariah Collective ...
Iraqi faithful: Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, distributes Communion to displaced Iraqi Catholics ...
Forced out: Nafee Abd Almaseeh and his wife Trazia Marzina pose with their family on October ...
Facing questions: Pope Francis answers a reporter's question on his flight back to Rome after speaking ...
Patriarch Louis Sako: "I would like to express my pain and the pain of your Christian ...
Meeting refugees: Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan (left) speaks to other Christian leaders during ...
Uncertain future: A woman who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar sits with ...
Slain journalist: US journalist James Foley speaks at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, ...
Fleeing violence: A man and three children flee violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State ...
Human tragedy: Children flee violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar, Iraq, on ...
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