Young Iraqi refugees are learning culinary and management skills in a program established at the church to help them when they reach their final destination in other countries.
Pizza for all: Jordanian parish matches Italian cuisine, Iraqi skills
Patriarch: Iraqi Christians hope goodwill from papal trip carries over
“Christians need to be recognized not only by the words, but on the ground as equal citizens,” said Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan after the papl March trip to Iraq.
Chaldean archbishop: Iraqi Christians face ‘extinction’ unless world acts
Iraqi Christians face “extinction” unless Islam recognizes the fundamental equality of all people and takes steps to overcome violent factions that seek to force religious minorities from the country, said Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil.
Iraq Christians’ status more stable but still precarious, say panelists
Although life in Iraq for Christians has stabilized since the routing of Islamic State from the country, their numbers are down from 2014, when the militant group began its insurgency, with their towns largely wrecked and infrastructure in shambles.
Iraqi Christians need time to rebuild trust
As some Iraqi Christians make a slow return to the region around Mosul following the defeat of the Islamic State group, many say it will take time to rebuild their lives and even longer to rebuild their trust of those who betrayed them.
Some Iraqis hopeful, but aid groups have concerns about Mosul offensive
Iraqi Christians are cautiously welcoming the start of the battle for Mosul and the Ninevah Plain, their ancestral homeland of the past 14 centuries from which they were brutally driven out by the Islamic State group more than two years ago.
Young people launch campaign for solidarity with suffering Christians
Pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Washington at World Youth Day in Poland started a social media campaign to show their solidarity with Iraqi Christians and others who suffer persecution.