Iraqi refugees Archives

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

Mosul a sign that Christians and Muslims can cooperate in Iraq

Jan 9, 2021

Dominican Father Olivier Poquillon is currently working in Mosul, Iraq, after serving as the General Secretary of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the EU (COMECE).

By Inés San Martín

Pre-Christmas celebration gives hope to Iraqi refugees still in Lebanon

Dec 15, 2020

More than 100,000 Christians driven out from Iraq’s Ninevah Plain by the Islamic State in the summer of 2014 are living as refugees in Lebanon.

By Doreen Abi Raad

Murad, Amal Clooney accuse leaders and UN of failing Yazidis

Aug 4, 2020

Six years after Islamic State fighters launched an attack on Iraq’s Yazidi minority, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad and human rights lawyer Amal Clooney accused government leaders and the United Nations on Monday of failing to bring the extremists responsible for the genocide to justice.

By Edith Lederer

Chaldean patriarch appeals for aid to Christians in Ninevah Plain

Dec 12, 2019

Cardinal Louis Sako, Chaldean Catholic patriarch, has appealed for Christian relief in the towns of the Ninevah Plain, the historical cradle of Christianity in Iraq.

By Doreen Abi Raad

Chaldean Catholics celebrate Mary, culture, family at Ohio national shrine

Aug 20, 2019

With its one stoplight and surrounding cornfields, the small Ohio village of Carey seems an unlikely travel destination. Yet, once a year, an estimated 5,000 visitors swell the town population to more than double.

By Katie Rutter

Pope Francis meets with Nobel Peace prize winner Nadia Murad

Dec 21, 2018

Pope Francis met Thursday with the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, a survivor of ISIS enslavement and an advocate for human rights and persecuted Iraqi minorities.

By Courtney Grogan

Chaldean leaders pleased that U.S. aid helps Iraqi religious minorities

Jul 2, 2018

A Chaldean Catholic archbishop in Iraq said he and other bishops were “delighted” that the United States Agency for International Development is making good on its pledge to help Iraq’s historic Christian, Yazidi and other religious minorities rebuild their lives after attacks by Islamic State militants.

By Dale Gavlak