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Crux covers ACN conference on Christians in northern Iraq
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A recent independence vote in Kurdistan has created the threat of new conflict in northern Iraq, and raised questions about whether this is the right ...
Zenit features talks on Iraq at ACN-backed conference
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“The greatest challenge, then, is to create the social, political and economic conditions to enable a new social cohesion, which favors reconciliation and peace, and ...
Vatican Secretary of State demands respect for Iraqi Christians’ rights
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Beyond the urgency of the physical reconstruction of the Nineveh Plains, the the cardinal said, “there is the more important obligation of reconstructing Iraqi society ...
In northern Iraq, another 15,000 Christians are going home!
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Still, with another 12,000 houses still to be repaired or rebuilt, Father Halemba—who serves as acting chairman of the Nineveh Reconstruction Committee (NRC)—said much more ...
On the Nineveh Plains, a Christian village is coming back to life
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Bartella, a Christian village on the Nineveh Plains in Iraq, was the first of the region’s communities to be liberated from the grip of ISIS, ...
ACN funds slate of new projects to help Syrian Christians
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There is massive destruction to the country’s infrastructure and the trauma of brutal warfare has left people—especially the young—with deep psychological scars, which are causing ...
Prelate reclaims his Archdiocese of Mosul
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Now that Mosul has been recaptured from ISIS, will Christians be able to return to their homes there soon? It’s too soon to tell, according ...
Post-ISIS rebuild begins on the Nineveh plain, Iraq’s ancient Christian heartland
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Work has begun on the rebuilding of the first 100 Christian homes on the Nineveh plain, a region devastated by ISIS.
Remains of abducted Syrian Christians are finally laid to rest
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The remains of five Christians abducted by jihadist rebels four years ago from the Christian town of Maaloula have at last been laid to rest ...
Priest was ISIS captive: ‘I am journeying towards freedom’
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Syrian monk Father Jacques Mourad spent five months in 2015 as a captive of ISIS. He recently spoke about his experience at Notre Dame Cathedral ...