Desert News: Tensions with Iran have calmed, but all religious sites remain at risk

The House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R. 390- the Iraq and Syria Genocide Emergency Relief and Accountability Act of 2017. “The situation on the ground is extremely fluid,” Phillippe Nassif, executive director for In Defense…

“I can run through a list of countries where there are religious minorities who came to the United States to be safe,” says IDC Executive Director Philippe Nassif. “The same goes Christians from Sudan,” Nassif…

The deportation effort has alarmed lawmakers who have tried to raise awareness about the plight of Chaldean and other Christian communities in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. Those communities have struggled to…