Monthly Archives: January 2010

Iraqi Christians face desperate poverty

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 A leading Iraqi bishop has spoken out against the miserable living conditions of Christians who have fled to the Kurdish north, saying that the crisis is sparking yet another mass exodus of people determined to “leave the country for good.” Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk told Catholic charity Aid to the…

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Iraq’s Holy Innocents

[John F. Cullinan] Spare a thought — and perhaps also a prayer — for Iraq’s beleaguered Christians, who yesterday observed the somber Feast of the Holy Innocents. Perhaps nowhere else…

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