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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prelate kidnapped by Al Qaeda says Trump helping Middle East Christians
- Mar 23, 2018
The United States has been more helpful toward Christians escaping persecution in Iraq compared to most European countries, according to Archbishop Saad Sirop Hanna, the Apostolic Visitor for Chaldeans Residing in Europe, who was kidnapped by Al Qaeda militants in 2006.
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