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by bcadmin | Jun 7, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, lead, Middle East Christianity, News, Patriarch Luis Sako, pluralism | 0 |
In a lengthy, searing letter published amid Iraq’s ongoing political standstill, Chaldean Patriarch Luis Raphael Sako criticized leaders’ inability to root out corruption and rid the country of discrimination against minorities.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 6, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Chaldean Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Europe, Iraqi Christians, Iraqi refugees, News, priest kidnapped, Sweden | 0 |
After enduring war and suffering in Iraq, Chaldean Catholics abroad prefer to look ahead to a brighter future in their adopted countries rather than return to their native land, said Bishop Saad Sirop Hanna
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 29, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the Middle East, France, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, Isis, Islamic State, Mosul, News, President Emmanuel Macron | 0 |
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday visited Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, which suffered widespread destruction during the war to defeat the Islamic State group in 2017.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 8, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, church-state relations, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, lead, News, Patriarch Louis Sako | 0 |
Seven years after ISIS’s invasion of the Nineveh Plain, one of Iraq’s top prelates has said the country’s Christians still face an uncertain future.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 15, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, lead, News, Patriarch Louis Sako, pluralism | 0 |
As Iraq’s parliamentary elections continue to draw near, one of the country’s top prelates has stressed the importance of helping the nation to focus on fostering peaceful coexistence between the various religious and ethnic groups who have lived side by side for centuries.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 26, 2021 | Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald, Christian-Muslim relations, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, lead, Middle East, News, Patriarch Louis Sako | 0 |
One of the most authoritative Catholic voices in Iraq has argued that the survival of Christians in the country depends on the creation of a secular state where all forms of sectarianism are eradicated.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 14, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, lead, News, Patriarch Louis Sako, Pope Francis, Pope in Iraq | 0 |
Pope Francis has sent a letter to Iraqi Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako voicing thanks for his visit to Iraq last month and praising the local church for its charitable activities and its role in working to rebuild the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, church-state relations, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, lead, News, Patriarch Louis Sako, Pope Francis, Religious Freedom | 0 |
One month after Pope Francis’s historic visit to Iraq, one of the country’s top Catholic prelates has made the bold suggestion of enforcing a stricter separation between religion and the state.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Chaldean Church, Christians in Iraq, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, News, Patriarch Raphael Sako, Pope Francis in Iraq | 0 |
Before returning to Rome from Iraq March 8, Pope Francis left $350,000 to assist families still suffering the impact of conflict or in dire straits because of the economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, said Cardinal Louis Sako, the Baghdad-based patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christians in Iraq, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, News, Palm Sunday, Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Younan | 0 |
Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, visiting from the patriarchate in Beirut, led about 20,000 Christians through the streets of Qaraqosh Palm Sunday, March 28.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 22, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, lead, Middle East, Nadia Murad, News, Patriarch Louis Sako, Yazidis | 0 |
One of Iraq’s top Church officials has praised the recent return of several confiscated properties belonging to Christians and other minorities, saying the move is one that could hasten the return of families who left the country due to injustice and persecution.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 20, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christians in Iraq, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Syriac Christians | 0 |
Political leaders had “very nice words” during Pope Francis’s early March trip to Iraq, but now Christians pray “that those words, those declarations, will be applied on the daily level, on the ground,” said Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan.
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