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  • Pope’s risky Iraq trip aims to boost Christians

    Pope’s risky Iraq trip aims to boost Christians

    • Mar 3, 2021

    Pope Francis is pushing ahead with the first papal trip to Iraq despite rising coronavirus infections, hoping to encourage the country’s dwindling number of Christians who were violently persecuted during the Islamic State’s insurgency while seeking to boost ties with the Shiite Muslim world.

    By Nicole Winfield
  • U.S. Chaldean Catholics hope pope’s Iraq trip brings peace, reconciliation

    U.S. Chaldean Catholics hope pope’s Iraq trip brings peace, reconciliation

    • Mar 3, 2021

    The 1,200 Chaldean Catholic families who live in Arizona are thousands of miles from the land of their birth. On March 5, their hearts will turn toward their native Iraq.

    By Joyce Coronel
  • Binding, bonding, bridging: CRS project helps Iraqis trust again

    Binding, bonding, bridging: CRS project helps Iraqis trust again

    • Mar 3, 2021

    A Catholic Relief Services project is helping residents returning to Iraq’s Ninevah Plain rebuild their lives, communities and trust, which were ripped apart by Islamic State militant destruction. It’s an area Pope Francis plans to visit on his historic papal trip to Iraq March 5-8.

    By Dale Gavlak
  • ‘Not a good idea:’ Experts concerned about pope trip to Iraq

    ‘Not a good idea:’ Experts concerned about pope trip to Iraq

    • Feb 28, 2021

    Infectious disease experts are expressing concern about Pope Francis’s upcoming trip to Iraq, given a sharp rise in coronavirus infections there, a fragile health care system and the unavoidable likelihood that Iraqis will crowd to see him.

    By Nicole Winfield and Samya Kullab
  • Iraq’s struggling Christians hope for boost from pope visit

    Iraq’s struggling Christians hope for boost from pope visit

    • Feb 24, 2021

    Iraq’s Christian communities were dealt a severe blow when they were scattered by the IS onslaught in 2014, further shrinking the country’s already dwindling Christian population. Many hope their struggle to endure will get a boost from a historic visit by Pope Francis planned in March.

    By Mariam Fam
  • Iraq: Full of historic sites important to understanding Christianity

    Iraq: Full of historic sites important to understanding Christianity

    • Feb 23, 2021

    Pope Francis hopes to embark on the first-ever papal visit to the biblical land of Iraq in early March in a spiritual pilgrimage of sorts to the place known in Arabic as the “land of the two rivers” — the mighty Tigris and Euphrates — and once renowned as Mesopotamia, the “cradle of civilization.”

    By Dale Gavlak
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