The Chaldean Community Foundation (CCF) officially has boots on the ground in Alqosh, Iraq. For the past 6 months, it has had a working relationship with two local surveyors, Ghazwan and Hanan, who will begin taking a full census of the state of the Chaldean villages and remaining families following the destruction and chaos of the ISIS invasion just a few years ago.
Read MoreStorms have no borders; dust storms show no mercy or dust, diplomacy. Dust storms over Iraq and the Middle East have become a huge problem for the countries involved as well as their citizens, impacting their health, the economy, the environment, and agriculture.
Read MoreFor Christians around the world, Easter is the most holy of holidays. It is the day when we recognize the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead; it is the foundation of our faith and the promise of hope for the future.
Read MorePhotographer Wilson Sarkis is committed to making an impact in the future of photography, and to helping the people in his homeland not only survive but thrive. His work with the Chaldean Community Foundation, among others, has brought him into the national limelight. Wilson has been slated to photograph Iraq for a future documentary. “I have passion for what I do. That passion has been my fuel through all these years,” says Wilson. His passion has a renewed purpose with these series of photographs.
Read MoreOn Saturday, May 12, Iraqis casted their votes for the nation’s fourth election since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. In the days prior to the election, on May 10 and on May 11, Iraqis living outside of the nation had the opportunity to vote. Shoki Konja of Franklin, Michigan, and Director of the Chaldean Voice Radio, was one of those people. He voted in Warren, Michigan at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chaldean Church. “It was an incredible, exhilarating feeling to be able to vote in this election and to have some sort of say in the process. My stained finger is proof that there is hope for Iraq,” said Konja.
Read MoreIn May, Shamasha Khairy Mikha Foumia published his seventh book, Catalogue Manuscripts of the Church in Telkeppe (540 pages), written in Aramaic and Arabic, which describes the 240 manuscripts he found in the library of the church of Telkeppe. He started this project nearly 30 years ago, in 1989. Born in Telkeppe, Foumia lived in Baghdad in his later years. Because his parents and other relatives still lived in Telkeppe, he and his family would visit there during the holidays and in the summertime.
Read MoreRita lived a normal life in Iraq as a Muslim girl until one night, at age 18, she had a mystical dream. She saw herself walking in a green field surrounded by green trees. She reached an old but extraordinarily beautiful clay house and knocked on its brown wooden door. A graceful man dressed in priest clothing opened the door and welcomed her inside where she saw a lovely lady lying on the bed. She also welcomed her in the most joyous manner. Rita asked them, “Who are you?”
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Seven months have already passed since the entire city of Mosul and the whole plain of Nineveh have been freed from the dominion of the Jihadists of the so-called Islamic State (Daesh). Yet, to this day, many cities of the Nineveh Plain, once inhabited by Christians, “are still empty”, and no resident has returned to their homes, abandoned in the summer of 2014 in the face of the advancement the “Caliphate’s militias.
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