For the first time since ISIS drove out all the Christians from Iraq’s Nineveh Plain in 2014, the Christian town of Qaraqosh celebrated Easter this year after many of its Christian families returned. 29-year-old Noor, an architect, is one of…
On Saturday, 9 December, Open Doors is hosting a prayer event in New York, ahead of our One Million Voices of Hope petition presentation to the United Nations. Although this event is in New York, we are calling on friends…
By adding your voice, you are supporting Christians like Noeh and his family – to have a future and to be witnesses on the frontlines of our faith.
On 24 October 2017, fighting broke out between Iraqi and Kurdish forces in and around the Christian villages of Telskuf, Bakufa, and Batnaya. As a result, two teenage boys, aged 12 and 14, were, among other people, wounded. And about…
Since the start of the war, stories of refugees fleeing from the conflict in the Middle East have come to light. Among the refugees are many Christians and other minorities that have fled the Middle East in search of peace…
This is the moment hundreds of displaced Christian families have been longing for: the cross, deemed illegal by so-called Islamic State (IS) militants, has returned to the village of Karamles on Iraq's Nineveh Plain. Reports indicate that Karamles, Qaraqosh and…
One week after Iraqi forces recaptured the city of Fallujah from the Islamic State, Baghdad suffered its deadliest single bomb attack since 2007 on the 3rd of July 2016. The BBC reported on July 4, 2016, that the death toll…
A car bomb in front of a local police station, right next door to the American Consulate in Ankawa, claimed the lives of at least three people and left a dozen wounded. The attack has shaken the predominantly Christian community…