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August 12, 2015

Iraq’s Christians still in dire need of help

Iraqis forced to flee from advancing Islamic State militants wait in line for humanitarian aid at a camp for displaced people in Zakho, Iraq. One year after the Islamic State launched its initial onslaught, refugees remain in poverty and chaos.

OTTAWA - One year after the Islamic State’s invasion of Iraq forced more than 120,000 Iraqi Christians to flee ancient homelands with little except their clothes, most continue to live in poverty and chaos.

Published in Canada
June 4, 2015

French Catholics want countries to quit buying oil from Islamic State

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian offers his condolences to Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, at the Coptic cathedral in Cairo in late February. Earlier in the month, Islamic State released a video of the killing of Egyptian Christians in Libya.

OXFORD, England - French Catholics have urged church support for a campaign to stop Western companies from buying oil from Islamic State, in effect funding the mass killing of Christians.

Published in International
January 23, 2015

Christianity's survival in Mideast highly unlikely

Aid to the Church in Need spokesperson Marie Claude Lalonde, right, speaks with Montreal Archbishop Christian Lepine. Lalonde says that in 60 per cent of countries around the world, religious liberty is compromised.

MONTREAL - The long-term survival of Christianity in the Middle East is threatened and “humanity in the region where Christianity was born will not be the same without it,” a spokesman for Aid to the Church in Need told a seminar in Montreal this week.

Published in Canada
November 15, 2014

Religious freedom ‘of concern’ in Canada

Iraqi Christians and supporters marched for religious freedom through the streets of downtown Toronto Aug. 10. Despite relative freedom, controversy over Quebec’s proposed secular charter in 2013 prompted Aid to the Church in Need to designate Canada a country of concern for religious freedom.

Canada has been rated a country “of concern” in the latest “Religious Freedom in the World” report issued by the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. 

Published in Canada
November 5, 2014

Christian persecution gains notice from Prince Charles, Catholic group

Prince Charles

MANCHESTER, England - The heir to the British throne suggested that Islamic leaders must speak out against the persecution of Christians by Muslims if they are to guarantee freedom within their own countries.

Published in International
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