Tag: Iraq

  • March 5, 2021

Pope: Honor martyrs by remaining faithful, working for a better Iraq

Pope Francis visited the cathedral where 48 Christian martyrs died in 2010 when militants detonated explosives and shot...
  • March 5, 2021

Pope arrives in Iraq, promoting peace, tolerance, equality

To consolidate peace and ensure progress, the government and people of Iraq must never treat anyone as a...
  • March 4, 2021

‘Finally,’ pope says he will be able to make pilgrimage to Iraq

Pope Francis told the people of Iraq he was going to their country as a "penitential pilgrim," asking...
  • 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...
  • February 18, 2021

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...
  • February 16, 2021

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...
  • February 11, 2021

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...
  • February 8, 2021

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...
  • January 26, 2021

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...
  • January 19, 2013

Catholics Matter: Joyce Coronel: ‘Sun’ columnist highlights plight of Chaldean Catholics

Although fiction, Joyce Coronel has taken elements of her life growing up in Scottsdale and as a writer...