Iraqi Syriac Catholic refugee families are among the more than 100,000 Christians driven out from Iraq’s Ninevah Plain by the Islamic State in the summer of 2014.
Pre-Christmas celebration gives hope to Iraqi refugees still in Lebanon
Bishops: Getting COVID-19 vaccine is ‘act of charity,’ supports the common good
The “gravity” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and “the lack of availability of alternative vaccines,” are “sufficiently serious” reasons to accept the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Dec. 14.
Pope says Vatican City will aim for net-zero carbon emissions
Pope Francis pledged Vatican City State would achieve net-zero carbon emissions before the year 2050, and he urged everyone in the world to be part of a new culture of care for others and the planet.
Post-McCarrick report dialogue zeroes in on ‘hyperclerical culture’
One month to the day that the Vatican released its report on since-laicized cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a panel of academics took a close look at what one called a “hyperclerical culture” that allowed McCarrick’s sexual misconduct to go unchecked.
Catholic agencies deliver aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Amid fears that many areas in Ethiopia’s Tigray region remained unsafe, Catholic humanitarian agencies and their partners were moving food and other supplies to locations near the border of Tigray, where a month of fighting has left thousands without food, medicine and other basic needs.
Biden’s HHS pick praised for backing ACA, criticized for abortion views
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Biden’s choice to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has stirred the partisan fires Biden says he hopes to quell.
Vatican will offer Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 to employees
“Only through a widespread and capillary immunization of the population will it be possible to obtain real advantages in terms of public health to achieve control of the pandemic,” Dr. Andrea Arcangeli said Dec. 11.
Pope encourages church’s efforts to bring peace, aid to Syria, Iraq
Pope Francis sent a video message Dec. 10 to an online meeting about the Syrian and Iraqi humanitarian crises.