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Aid specialist warns that Christians in Iraq and Syria face new risk of genocide
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“Christians are the soul of the country and they play a very important role in Middle Eastern societies. They are the peacemakers. Christians work for ...
Iraqi prelate pleads before UN Security Council for international aid
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Iraq stands at a historic crossroads. The Christian and other minority communities of Iraq stand with - and often beside - Muslim protestors as together ...
Aid to the Church in Need begins repair of churches, church buildings in Iraq’s Christian homeland
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ACN hopes that this new initiative will restore hope for Iraq’s remaining Christians—a battered and fragile mere 10 percent of the 1.5 million Christians living ...
Deadly protests leave Christians in Iraq between hope and fear
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“We appeal to the conscience of Iraqi officials to listen seriously to their people, who are complaining of the current miserable situation, the deterioration of ...
National Review: ACN Outreach Director discusses Christianity in Iraq
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One of Iraq’s most prominent Christian leaders has deeper concerns. On the fifth anniversary of the ISIS invasion of northern Iraq, Bashar Warda of the ...
Iraqi Christians fear appointment of Islamic judges to country’s highest court
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IN A COUNTRY where Christians have been subject to targeted bombings, kidnapping, and discrimination, Church leaders are grappling with a new crisis: an attempt to ...
The future of Christians in Iraq, five years after ISIS invasion
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"We Christians are a people of hope. But facing the end also brings us clarity, and with it the courage to finally speak the truth. ...
On Iraq’s Nineveh Plains, a priest tells his flock to be courageous
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FATHER DURAID Barber is a priest of the Syriac-Catholic Archdiocese of Mosul, Kirkuk and Kurdistan. Born and raised in Qaraqosh, a Christian town on the ...
Iraqi prelate waits, longs for better times for his Church and his people
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"However, we still lack the funds to complete the reconstruction of all the homes that were very badly damaged or completely destroyed; we are waiting ...
Proceeds from papal sale of Lamborghini go to help Iraqi Christians on Nineveh Plains
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The village was badly damaged during the fighting of recent years but the Christian community has returned—in large numbers. By now, 405 of the 580 ...
