![With picture of Sister Huda and student Rameel Rabu Wadi (© ACN)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/0428Iraq_1-scaled-e1651142061882.jpg)
IRAQ: School of hope and recovery
Iraq’s Christians will, on Sunday, pass a momentous milestone on the way towards recovery from genocide when…
![The April 2022 Easter services at the church. (© Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/0421Iraq_BatnayaApril2022_Easter1-e1650536618329.jpg)
IRAQ: Batnaya’s Resurrection day
One Christian community in Iraq had added cause for rejoicing this Easter when their church opened for…
![Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1201Iraq-scaled-e1638374906187.jpg)
IRAQ: Christian home fire-bombed in Iraq
A bomb attack on the home of a Catholic shopkeeper in southern Iraq has been condemned by…
![With picture of Syriac Catholic Archbishop Nathaniel Nizar Semaan (© Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/1008Iraq_Archbishop-Nizar-Semaan-e1633693541963.jpg)
IRAQ: Ankawa, home of the Christians, comes of age
The creation of “the biggest district of Christians in the Middle East” has been warmly welcomed by…
![Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil (© Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/0921Iraq-scaled-e1632216890695.jpg)
IRAQ: Iraq’s extremists emboldened by Taliban takeover
The threat of Daesh (ISIS) and other extremists in Iraq has grown following the Taliban’s return to…
![Pope Francis in Iraq (© Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/0406Iraq-e1617710255622.jpeg)
IRAQ: 23,000 returned – and counting
Pope Francis’ historic visit to Iraq has given fresh impetus this Easter to a movement of Iraqi…
![London Oratory School Schola Cantorum (© Weenson Oo/picture-u.net)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/0326UK_Iraq_Oratory-School-Schola-Cantorum.jpg)
UK/IRAQ: Join us in prayer for Iraq
An online devotional service for Holy Week – enriched by some of the finest sacred music –…
![Pope Francis saying Mass in Erbil (© Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/0311Iraq_1-scaled.jpg)
IRAQ: Hope is stronger than fear
Pope Francis’ historic trip to Iraq has given the country’s suffering Christians – who survived a genocide…
![Father Ameer Jaje OP (© Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/0308Iraq-scaled.jpg)
IRAQ: A symbolic meeting of peace and hope
The meeting between Pope Francis and Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani – one of Iraq’s most influential spiritual leaders…
![Archbishop Bashar Warda (© Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/0303Iraq_Archbishop-Warda--scaled.jpg)
IRAQ: To give youth hope and a future
Just days ahead of Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq, a leading Catholic charity has announced a £1.3million…
![With image of a priest standing amid the ruins of a building in Bashiqa destroyed during Daesh (ISIS)’s occupation of the town (Image © Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/0226-IRAQ-scaled.jpg)
IRAQ: Charity celebrates Pope’s help for Iraq
On the eve of the Pope’s visit to Iraq, a Catholic charity has revealed that key projects…
![Archbishop Bashar Warda (© Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/0225Iraq-scaled.jpg)
IRAQ: Christians are not foreigners
Pope Francis’s visit to Iraq next week is an opportunity to show that Iraqi Christians are not…