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By Brooke Anderson, Catholic News Service ANKAWA, Iraq (CNS) — When Suhail Louis left the sectarian violence of Baghdad a year ago, he thought he would find comfort in the safety of Northern Iraq. Instead, he’s faced with a new discomfort: unemployment.…
Read moreArmed guards will inspect you as you enter a church, but Muslims are perfectly welcome to pray there SULAIMANI, Iraq (CNS) — On a sunny afternoon in this quiet city in northern Iraq, a young veiled Muslim woman from Baghdad kneels to pray — at a Catholic church.…
Read moreBy Team Mangalorean Mangalore, Mar 7: Metrolitan Polycarpose Geevarghese (78) of the Evangelistic Association of the East ( EAE ) and St. Antony’s Mission ( Honnavar Mission ) passed away passed away in a hospital in Iritty in Kannur on Sunday, Mar 6.…
Read more By Nina Shea Copts in Egypt are begging for Egyptian Armed Forces protection today after a Muslim mob of several thousand attacked their church in the village of Soul, about 30…
Read moreBy Alan Holdren Rome, Italy, (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Casmoussa of Mosul has guided the Church in northwestern Iraq since 1999. It has been period in which political…
Read moreBeirut, Lebanon, (CNA).- Pope Benedict XVI has written a personal letter to the retiring Cardinal Patriarch of Lebanon’s Maronite Catholic Church, thanking him for his “service for the greater glory of God and the good of all his faithful. 
Read moreBy Michael Ireland BAGHDAD, IRAQ (ANS) — A group of armed men has burst into the home of an elderly Christian believer, stabbing him to death in Iraq.…
Read moreSyriac Union Party leader accuses Aoun of trying to force his own candidate as minister By Van Meguerditchian JDEIDEH: Lebanon has its sectarian minorities, and then it has its Minorities.…
Read moreBy Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With pro-democracy movements moving across North Africa and the Middle East, the situation in Libya worries the Vatican because of the loss of human lives,…
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