Easter is feast of hope, patriarchs tell beleaguered Middle Easterners
Eastern Catholic patriarchs related the Easter message of Resurrection and hope to the political situations in the Middle East.
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by bcadmin | Apr 18, 2022 | Armenian Catholic Church, Cardinal Bechara Rai, Catholic News Service, Chaldean Catholic Church, Christians in the Middle East, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, Patriarch Louis Sako, Syria, Syriac Catholic | 0 |
Eastern Catholic patriarchs related the Easter message of Resurrection and hope to the political situations in the Middle East.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 27, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Christian unity, Christians in the Middle East, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, lead, News, Patriarch Louis Sako, Week of Prayer for Christian Unity | 0 |
One of Iraq’s leading Catholic prelates has said the quest for unity among Christians should not focus on the pursuit of uniformity but should rather embrace the diversity of the various rites and traditions in Catholicism.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 9, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, Iraq, lead, News, Patriarch Louis Sako, Pope Francis | 0 |
Pope Francis sent a telegram to Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, condemning it as a “vile act of terrorism.”
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 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 | Feb 17, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, News, Patriarch Louis Sako, Pope Francis, Pope in Iraq | 0 |
Pope Francis hopes to embark on the first-ever papal visit to the biblical land of Iraq in March 5-8 in a spiritual pilgrimage to the place known in Arabic as the “land of the two rivers” and once renowned as Mesopotamia, the “cradle of civilization.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 16, 2021 | Church in the Middle East, Iraq, lead, News, Patriarch Louis Sako, Pope Francis, Pope in Iraq | 0 |
Rockets fired in Erbil, a city in Iraq’s Kurdistan region Pope Francis is scheduled to visit March 7, is yet another hurdle in a long list that cast a shadow over the first papal trip since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 29, 2021 | Catholic-Muslim relations, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Islam, lead, News, Patriarch Louis Sako, Pope Francis | 0 |
If Pope Francis’s awaited trip to Iraq in March goes through as planned, he will likely meet the country’s top spiritual leader for Shiite Muslims, marking a significant step in his pursuit of interfaith dialogue.
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