Iraq: Catholic woman elected mayor of Alqosh
Chaldean Catholic Lara Yussif Zara is the new mayor of Alqosh, the small town of Nineveh Plain, inhabited mostly by Christians, which for three years was on the border with
Middle Eastern Christians Propose a Safe Haven in Iraq
Representatives of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac Christian political parties have produced a position paper which outlines their desire to establish self-governance. In the very land from which Christianity was
Chaldean Patriarch: “sadness and concern” for the issue of Iraqi Christians whom the US government wants to expel
Baghdad - The Chaldean Church closely follows, with sadness and concern, the developments in the judicial proceedings with which the United States of America is preparing to expel 114 Iraqis,
Detroit’s Chaldean bishop responds to deportation of Iraqi Christians
Bishop Francis Kalabat, the Chaldean Catholic bishop of the Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit, described the federal government’s immigration roundup of dozens of Detroit-area Iraqi Christians as
Chaldean patriarch: at Easter, faith in the risen Christ stronger than hatred and terrorism
Mar Sako highlights the “suffering and daily grief” endured by Christians in Iraq and the world. The answer to violence is a civilised and modern "state" capable of building a
Chaldean patriarch’s sorrow over Mosul’s tragedy, ready to help thousands of displaced people
Mar Sako tells of west Mosul "difficult but necessary" liberation. Jihadis "use people" as human shields amid narrow streets and houses. Thousands have died and more than 10,000 homes have
Christians in northern Iraq ‘on verge of extinction’, says aid worker
Their future depends on help from the West, according to a senior Chaldean Catholic official A senior aid worker within the Chaldean Catholic archdiocese in northern Iraq has described the
Christmas Joy Amid Uncertainty: Christian Refugees Celebrate the Nativity in the U.S.
Joan Frawley Desmond and Kathy Schiffer QUEENS, N.Y. — Marina Markos, a Coptic Orthodox Christian refugee from Cairo, Egypt, plunged into the 2016 Christmas season in Queens, New York —
The Chaldean Patriarchate proposes the creation of a “Council of Churches in Iraq”
Baghdad - The Patriarchate of Babylon is studying the project for the creation of a "Council of Churches in Iraq" bringing together all the Churches and ecclesial communities present on
It is the Right Time to Stop the Spreading of the Cancer of the So-called ISIS and Resembling Organizations
The world was taken by surprise when, in the name of Islam, ISIS (Daesh) and Resembling Organizations constrained human freedom; displaced and killed civilians; or burnt them alive; enslaved women