Iraqi Christians

Judge blocks deportation of Chaldeans and other Iraqis
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- June 25, 2017
Clarence Dass, an attorney representing many Iraqi Christians the U.S. government wants deported deported, said he was “ecstatic” over a court decision delaying the order. “When your life is on the line, each day is a victory. And in this case, 14 days,” Dass said. “We now have the breathing room to ensure that every individual detained has the proper motions filed and, ultimately, a chance to be heard. The work continues.”
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Iraqi martyr remembered in Rome ten years after murder
- Global Church
- June 13, 2017
Rome’s Pontifical Irish College celebrated Holy Trinity Mass in the memory of Father Ragheed Ganni, a former resident. In 2007, the 35-year-old Iraqi priest was shot to death by Islamic militants. Also killed were three subdeacons: Basman Daoud, Ghasan Bidawid and Waheed Isho’a.
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Hungary signs accord with archbishop to support Iraqi clinic
- Associated Press, Global Church
- May 30, 2017
Hungary will be donating more than half a million dollars to Saint Joseph’s Clinic in Iraq, which caters mainly to persecuted Christians in the area who have fled their homes in Mosul after ISIS forces took the city in 2014.
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In Iraq, necessity makes priests become engineers
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- May 29, 2017
Fr. Georges Jahola, a Syrian Catholic priest, said that “here in Iraq if the Church doesn’t do these things, who’s going to do them? We have the capacity to act and do the talking, and also the contacts.” Therefore, they are rolling up their sleeves and getting to work.
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U.S. seminarians run across Italy to help displaced families in Iraq
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- May 8, 2017
Nine seminarians from the United States decided to run toward the opposite sides of the Italian peninsula in order to raise funds for displaced families in Iraq. The one-day run raised more than $15,000 dollars to be given to programs for families from Mosul.
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Next few months will decide Christians’ fate in scarred Iraq, says official
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- April 12, 2017
As ISIS is being pushed out of its strongholds the liberated territories show a story of desecration, destruction, and hate. According to the international president of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association the next few months will determine the fate of Iraqi Christians.
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