Chaldean Catholics

  • March 10, 2021

Detroit-area Chaldean Catholics call pope’s Iraq trip ‘beautiful to see’

Metro Detroit's Chaldean Catholic community hopes Pope Francis' recently completed pastoral visit to Iraq strengthens and restores some...
  • March 8, 2021

Living the beatitudes can change the world, pope says in Iraq

Pope Francis told Iraqi Christians that when they suffer discrimination, persecution or war, the Eight Beatitudes are addressed...
  • March 1, 2021

Pope Francis’ journey to Iraq brings hope for peace, reconciliation in Arizona’s Chaldean community

The 1,200 Chaldean Catholic families who live in Arizona are thousands of miles from the land of their...
  • August 23, 2019

Chaldean Catholics celebrate Mary, culture, family at Ohio national shrine

CAREY, Ohio (CNS) — With its one stoplight and surrounding cornfields, the small Ohio village of Carey seems...
  • June 6, 2018

Phoenix Chaldean priest remembers martyred cousin whose canonization cause was recently opened

Msgr. Felix Shabi, corbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Vicariate of Arizona of the Chaldean Diocese of St. Peter...
  • June 5, 2018

Naming Chaldean as cardinal is gift to struggling Church

BEIRUT (CNS) — Pope Francis’ naming of Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako as cardinal is a gift...
  • May 18, 2018

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...
  • February 20, 2018

Chaldean archbishop: Time to be ‘honest’ in dialogue with Muslims

WASHINGTON (CNS) - If Christians in the Middle East are going to be "honest" with their Muslim dialogue...
  • January 17, 2018

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...
  • March 13, 2017

Faith, Family, Fridays and Fish

Mike and Cheryl Lau don’t attend St. Henry Parish in Buckeye. The Verrado couple isn’t even Catholic. But...