Tag: Islamic State

Catholic News Service ROME — Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil was sitting in a room in an unknown location, one of several he had been relocated...

MANILA, Philippines — Catholic bishops in the southern Philippines supported the declaration of martial law in Mindanao following an attempt by a band of...

Catholic News Service MANCHESTER, England — Pope Francis decried the "barbaric attack" on concertgoers in Manchester, adding his voice to Catholic leaders dismayed at what...

Catholic News Service BEIRUT — The Syriac Catholic patriarch said he was horrified to see widespread devastation and what he called “ghost towns” during a...

  Catholic News Service   WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The military operation to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group is not the only...

Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis offered prayers for the families of the victims of the mass shooting in Orlando and expressed hope...

  Catholic News Service   BAGHDAD (CNS) -- Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad urged Iraq's leaders to put an end to the "institutional, economic and...

Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that atrocities carried out by the Islamic State group against Yezidis, Christians and...

WASHINGTON — The House Foreign Affairs Committee March 2 unanimously passed a bipartisan measure condemning as genocide the killing of Christians, Yezidis and other...

Catholic News Service IRBIL, Iraq (CNS) -- Habiba Daud remembers Christmas in Qaraqosh as beautiful. The festivities would start days before with the preparation of...