ROME — While Pope Francis tries to strike a delicate balance Sunday on the Israeli/Palestinian front, recent elections in two other Middle Eastern nations have brought reminders not only of how intractable…
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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…
Posted 2014-05-28 Amman – His Royal Highness Prince Al Hassan Bin Talal, the president of the Arab Thought Forum and the Royal Institute for Inter-faith Studies received on Wednesday Patriarch Louis Raphael…
Posted 2014-05-25 03:46 GMT Mosul, Iraq (AINA) — According to a report published by the Iraq Press, hundreds of Assyrians in Mosul have been forced to leave the city by fighters of…
05/22/2014 10:53 Mar Sako makes a pastoral visit to the diocese of Alqosh, on the northern end of the plain. His Beatitude meets with the local clergy, presides at a Eucharistic procession…
05/13/2014 18:01, IRAQ Mgr Nona talks to AsiaNews about the “general indifference” that surrounds the deaths, violence and attacks in his country. Even though people need “peace and serenity”, the elections “did…
8 May 2014 One church leader is pointing the finger at the West to explain the disappearance of Iraq’s Christians, writes Salah Nasrawi As the mass exodus of Iraq’s Christians continues, so…
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – The attacks of terrorism that bloodied the weeks leading up to the elections in Iraq, currently being held today Wednesday, April 30, did not stop even in open…
Tuesday, April 29, 2014, ACN Local Catholic leaders have expressed their hopes and concerns for the upcoming Iraqi parliamentary elections scheduled for Wednesday, April 30th, including the hope that Iraq might become…