Without immediate action from the international community, Christians in northern Iraq could be endangered with extinction, warns a new report from the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need. The report, "Life after ISIS: New ...
Pope Francis met with Iraq's president for private talks underlining the need for promoting stability, reconstruction, national sovereignty and dialogue in the country as well as guaranteeing security for Christians. The closed-door meeting between the ...
Catholics working to shape public policy in favor of peace, collaboration and nonviolent alternatives to war expressed concerns that the drone strike likely will fuel an escalating tit-for-tat series of responses that would engulf the ...
Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako, responding to a U.S. drone attack in Baghdad that killed Iran's top general, said "wisdom is required to avoid the 'volcanic eruption' we are about to face." Speaking during the ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about Archbishop Bashar Warda’s December talk at the United Nations to the Security Council. His message was Christians in Iraq are leaven in society, and it is in the best interest ...
To support the faithful and encourage them to stay in their homeland, the Syriac Catholic Church has reestablished a diocese for the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Iraqi Christians face "extinction" unless Islam recognizes the fundamental equality of all people and takes steps to overcome violent factions that seek to force religious minorities from the country, said Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of ...
Rami Hanna and his family — his wife, Sama, their 3-year-old daughter, Julia, and his parents — are now in Jordan after a long journey from their home in Iraq. But they are hoping it ...
After enduring persecution, violence and uprooting, a group of Iraqi religious and laypeople are on the path to healing. "They are suffering, in their minds and in their souls," said Melkite Father Gabriel Hachem, part of ...
Syriac Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Nizar Semaan begins his new mission in Iraq with hope "that Christianity will flourish again" in his homeland.
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