Saturday 1st August saw the Festival of Eastern Catholic Churches, held at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, London, organised by the Society of Saint John Chrysostom, the Catholic society founded in 1926 in…
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See the BBC video report here: BBC News – Iraq crisis: Tense times in Isis-held Mosul And from Independent Catholic News: Up to 2,000 people from the Iraqi Christian community in the…
08/07/2014, Vatican Radio) “The situation was already bleak but now it has got a whole deal worse. For the first time the ever, the bishops have raised the doomsday scenario of an…
ACN News Interview: Monday, 7th July 2014 – IRAQ An interview with the Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk Yousif Mirkis, by Oliver Maksan of the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. …
July 07, 2014, Michael J. Miller Ankawa (kath.net/ACN). The emigration of Christians from Iraq will greatly accelerate. The Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, expressed this opinion in…
by Elise Harris, Vatican City, Jul 3, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News) In a tumultuous Iraq facing an increasingly uncertain future, Catholic charity organizations are rallying to meet the immediate needs of those afflicted by…
Rome, July 01, 2014 (Zenit.org) Patriarch Louis Rafael I Sako, leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church, admits that he and his fellow bishops are “somewhat at a loss” in the midst of…
By Sean Savage/JNS.org, June 19, 2014 For most Westerners, Iraq is a foreboding and dangerous place that is filled with extremists and daily violence. Yet as little as 75 years ago Iraq…
June 06, 2014 A flood of Iraqi Christian refugees is straining the resources of the Chaldean Catholic Church in the autonomous region of Kurdistan. More than 12,000 Christian families from Baghdad, Mosul,…
Baghdad, June 06, 2014 (Zenit.org) With the migration of Christians from strife-ridden parts of the country to the north of Iraq the local Church there is facing major challenges. Chaldean Archbishop Bashar…