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Honoring suffering, building bridges: Papal trip to Iraq has dual focus
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing security concerns, Pope Francis is determined to visit Iraq to pay homage to Christian and other minorities persecuted for their faith and to strengthen the commitment of the overwhelming majority of Iraqi Muslims to creating a future of peace and harmony.
Iraq: Full of historic sites important to understanding Christianity
Pope Francis hopes to embark on the first-ever papal visit to the biblical land of Iraq in early March in a spiritual pilgrimage of sorts to the place known in Arabic as the "land of the two rivers" -- the mighty Tigris and Euphrates -- and once renowned as Mesopotamia, the "cradle of civilization."
Catholics in Qaraqosh, Iraq, call it ‘miracle’ that pope will visit
The largest Syriac Catholic congregation in the world is preparing physically and spiritually for Pope Francis' upcoming visit to Qaraqosh, Iraq.
In Iraq, pope hopes to encourage Christians, build bridges to Muslims
On his historic visit to Iraq in March, Pope Francis hopes to encourage his Christian flock, badly bruised by sectarian conflict and brutal Islamic State attacks, while building further bridges to Muslims by extending fraternal peace.
Pope will bring comfort, hope to Iraq, patriarch says
In the midst of three days of prayer and fasting for peace and an end to the coronavirus pandemic, Iraqi Cardinal Louis Sako, the Baghdad-based patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, said Iraqis still are counting on Pope Francis to visit in March.
Iraqis hope attacks by U.S., Iran will ease and tensions will decrease
The Chaldean archbishop, like those of other religious affiliations, wants foreign troops to stop using their shattered homeland as a battlefield to settle scores.
Jordanian priest helps Iraqi refugees get work at parish-based project
Iraqi Christians are now five years into displacement. One Jordan parish alone has 800 Iraqi refugee families.
Vatican OKs sainthood cause for Iraqi priest, deacons killed in Mosul
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican has given its permission for the opening of the sainthood cause of an Iraqi priest and three deacons who were murdered by armed gunmen in Mosul.
Knights give more than $1 million to Iraqi, Syrian Christians for Easter
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS) — As part of its ongoing support of persecuted Christians in the Middle East, the Knights of Columbus committed more than $1 million to Iraqi and Syrian Christians for Easter.
After fleeing Iraq, Chaldean Catholic now makes faith-based films
His personal credo of cinema: "movies that are mainstream but movies that have a faith-based element. The two should meet."
