Walking through this mainly Christian town outside of Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, it's easy to see many changes since the victims of Islamic State militants fled here for safety seven years ago. Gone are ...
Pope Francis condemned a drone attack on the Iraqi prime minister's residence as a "vile act of terrorism" and expressed his hope that all people in the country would pursue peace through dialogue. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, ...
Pope Francis expressed his condolences after a suicide bombing in a busy market in Baghdad claimed the lives of dozens of people. In a telegram sent July 21 to Archbishop Mitja Leskovar, papal nuncio to Iraq, ...
One month after Pope Francis' visit to Iraq, Cardinal Louis Sako, the Baghdad-based Chaldean Catholic patriarch, called for the development of school programs to educate Iraqis about the value of diversity in their country, but ...
Despite years of suffering due to war and terrorism, the people of Iraq continue to look to the future with hope, Pope Francis said. Recalling his recent visit to the country during his weekly general audience ...
During his recent trip to Iraq, Pope Francis reminded us that, while we have become skilled at tuning out the world beyond the security and comfort of our self-created bubbles over the last year, the ...
During his historic trip to Iraq, Pope Francis kept a packed itinerary. He met with authorities, civil society leaders and members of the diplomatic corps, and participated in an interreligious gathering on the plain of ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about Pope Francis’ recent pilgrimage to Iraq. She said, “Ever since the earliest days of” Pope Francis’ “pontificate, he has talked about how there are more persecuted Christians in the world ...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis summarized his “pilgrimage of faith and penitence” to Iraq in a prayer: “If God is the God of life — for so he is — then it is wrong ...
The Catholic Church's commitment to dialogue with other churches and with other religions flows from the Gospel, but Pope Francis said he knows some Catholics disagree. "Often you must take a risk" to promote harmony, he ...
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