![Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, Iraq.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/0607Iraq.jpg)
IRAQ: Christian community still needing help 10 years after Mosul invasion
On the 10th anniversary of Daesh (ISIS) seizing Mosul – heralding its invasion of the Nineveh Plains…
![Children in Mar Qardakh Kindergarten in Ankawa, Iraq.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/0119Iraq-e1705678061956.jpg)
IRAQ: New Catholic kindergarten is ‘a dream come true’
Iraqi Christian parents have expressed great joy about the opening of a Catholic kindergarten in Erbil, kindling…
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IRAQ: God forbid the spread of war
People in Iraq are terrified that the war in the Holy Land will engulf the region, according…
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IRAQ: Archbishop speaks of community’s pain after wedding blaze deaths
Iraq’s Christians have been plunged into mourning, after a fire at a wedding celebration left more than…
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IRAQ: University education offering a future for Iraq’s Christian community
A scholarship programme at an Iraqi Catholic university – which is now entering its second year –…
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IRAQ: Patriarch – President’s decree reversal is a ‘humiliation for the Church’
The leader of Iraq’s largest Christian community has condemned a Presidential order overturning a decree which recognises…
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IRAQ: Cardinal to leave Baghdad after presidential decree
Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael I Sako has announced he will “withdraw from the patriarchal seat in Baghdad”…
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IRAQ: Christian youth festival provides hope for future of Church
More than 1,800 young Iraqi Christians from more than 60 parishes across seven archdioceses took part in…
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IRAQ: New Iraq convent is a milestone in Christians’ return
A Catholic charity has hailed the re-opening of a convent in a village devastated by extremists as…
![Bishop Jude Arogundade (without mask), visiting a survivor of the attack on St Francis Xavier's Catholic Church.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1116International_2.jpg)
INTERNATIONAL/UK: Report shows persecution of Christians is getting worse
Jihadists and nationalists are driving increased persecution of Christians around the world – according to a report…
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IRAQ: Charity helps restore Church devastated by Daesh (ISIS)
A church destroyed by Islamist extremists during their occupation of northern Iraq is set to be fully…
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IRAQ: Gathering the youth in hope
More than 1,700 young people from all corners of Iraq are converging for the largest Christian youth…