As heavy fighting continues across the Nineveh Plain, some Christians displaced by the Islamic State have given up the dream of returning home and joined the stream of refugees leaving the war-torn country. Others remain in Iraqi Kurdistan, clinging to the hope that they can someday go back to their

Immigrants are not nuisances but fellow pilgrims on our shared spiritual journey.

When ISIS extremists rolled across Iraq’s Nineveh Plain in 2014, tens of thousands of Christians fled to Kurdish-controlled areas of Iraq. They still wait in limbo in crowded camps. Their only certainty is that whatever happens to them, a group of Dominican nuns will be at their side. “W

"The work I do as a Catholic holding office conforms to the social doctrine as best I can make of it."

The Australian government has struggled mightily with the question of refugees.

"This House believes that Christians, Yezidis, and other ethnic and religious minorities...are suffering genocide at the hands of Daesh."

“I got here thanks to Allah,” said Munir, whose son was killed in Syria.

"We do not want to wait to see the complete elimination of Christians, Yezidis and certain Muslim groups before we actually declare this violence for what it is."

Once a cherished pilgrimage site, much of the St. Elian monastery had been reduced to a pile of stones.

17 elder brothers and sisters in faith who knew how to “fight the good fight.”