Mardean Isaac, Author at Catholic Herald

Mardean Isaac

Why aid is not enough to save Nineveh Plain Christians

January 16, 2020

Patriarch Louis Sako of the Chaldean Catholic Church took the unprecedented move of cancelling Christmas celebrations in Iraq, following the violence unleashed upon regime protesters in Baghdad and elsewhere that left hundreds dead. “Morally and spiritually,” Cardinal Sako told Associated Press, “we cannot celebrate in such an atmosphere of tension … It’s not normal to

Clinging on in the wake of a genocide

February 22, 2018

The Heirs of Patriarch Shaker by Augin Kurt Haninke, Nineveh press, 362pp, £18 The Heirs of Patriarch Shaker is a history of the Syrian Orthodox Church – an autocephalous miaphysite body with a mostly ethnically Assyrian congregation – during the 20th century, the most trying period in its two millennia of existence. Augin Kurt Haninke

We have betrayed Iraqi Christians twice

March 18, 2013

On the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War Mardean Isaac says western states are forcing Iraqi Christians to return home

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