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Cardinal Patriarch Louis R. Sako -Photo Courtesy Of The Chaldean Patriarchate Of Babylon’s Website Speaking to Zenit in Bari After Pope’s Ecumenical Encounter, Says ‘I Am Convinced There Is a Future for the Gospel’ in the Middle East…

‘Indifference kills, and we desire to lift up our voices in opposition to this murderous indifference,’ says Pope Francis Agence France-Presse RELIGIOUS LEADERS. Pope Francis (L) watches as Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Pope…

In News5 Comments Christians have been rooted in the Middle East as minority communities since the birth of the religion, but their numbers are dwindling amid conflict and jihadist attacks. Christians Today they make up only four percent of the region’s population, down from 20 percent before the First World War, Cardinal Kurt Koch,…

Syrian Catholic Archbishop Youhanna Boutros Moshe of Mosul blesses a newly-erected cross in Bakhdida, Iraq, May 2, 2017. Photo courtesy SOS Chretiens Orient. By Elise Harris Vatican City, Jul 4, 2018 / 08:24 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Since 2014 international…

By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter (Photo: Reuters/Suhaib Salem)Burned candles as seen as Iraqis attend a Palm Sunday procession in the burnt out main church of Qaraqosh, Iraq, April 9, 2017. Iraqi Christian leaders expressed their gratitude to the United States for fulfilling its promise to aid them following years of devastation at the…

Kurdish Regional Government Institutes a New Business Tax on Select Christian Neighborhoods 07/03/18 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on January 23, 2018, the Kurdish Regional Government…

On May 20, the pope released the list of the new cardinals. Among them, Francis included the Chaldean Patriarch, Louis Raphael Sako. The Church of Iraq has celebrated this appointment as a sign of Francis closeness to Christians who have suffered all kinds of difficulties for years.…

By Joan Lewis Holiness, In my name and that of my new brother Cardinals, I think your Holiness for the trust placed in us and for having called us to serve with an ever greater love the Church and all men. This naming of cardinals from diverse countries expresses the vitality and the opening…

Dale Gavlak CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE The Musa family fled Bashiqa, Iraq, in 2014 in the face of Islamic State attacks and lived in Dohuk, Iraq, for three years. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Catholic Relief Services.)…

SNHR said today that no less than 4,759 civilians were killed in the first half of 2018 by the parties to the conflict in Syria, including 593 civilians who were killed in June. The report notes that SNHR has largely focused, since it was founded, on documenting victims who were killed at the hands of…

by Fr Benedict Kiely Fr Benedict Kiely with Sister Ban Madleen Nuns and priests from the Middle East have been repeatedly refused visas Archbishop Nicodemus, the red-haired Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Mosul, Iraq, is a…

Victoria Macchi FILE – Demonstrators protest President Donald Trump’s executive immigration ban at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Jan. 29, 2017. The United States is accepting an increasingly large share of Christian refugees,…

Our weekly round-up of the latest from Iraq The Iraq Report is a weekly feature at The New Arab. Muqtada al-Sadr, the winner of last month’s heavily boycotted elections, has declared formal agreements with electoral blocs represented by outgoing Prime Minister Haider…

Sinan Antoon’s acclaimed novel, now out in English, sheds light on the realities faced by Christians in Iraq. by Philip Jenkins Sinan Antoon Sinan Antoon. Photo by Ibtisam Azem. Sinan Antoon is a star of modern Arab fiction, a multiply honored novelist whose books…

By Rudaw From left: Angelo De Donatis General Vicar of Rome, Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Louis Raphael I Sako patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans addend the consistory where Pope Francis…

By: FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church 14 new cardinals Thursday, exhorting them to resist any temptation toward haughtiness and instead embrace “the greatest promotion” they could hope to obtain: tending to those neglected…

by Dario Salvi Today the Chaldean primate will receive a red hat from Pope Francis. It is a sign of “support” for the Eastern Churches and a further invitation “to dialogue and reconciliation”. The hope that “Christian schools, clinics, institutes and hospitals” may…

by Fady Noun Patriarch Sako will be created cardinal on 29 June. He appeals to Iraqi Christians who fled from the Islamic State to come back and those who remain to stay. “I never imagined that such terrible things could happen to our people,” he said. Christians must…

By Aileen Wingblad, awingblad@digitalfirstmedia.com,, @awingblad on Twitter An Oakland County judge was recently honored with the Pillar of Justice Award, given to experts in the field of law considered to be held in high esteem by their peers, and to recognize their exemplary community service.…

Gary Lane This year, The United Nations Secretary General has drawn special attention to the plight of suffering Christians and Yazidis from Iraq and Syria. “It is very important to ensure the return of the Christians, in general, to the religious minorities, and the Yazidis themselves, to their homeland,” said António Guterres…