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 ...
