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SYRIA: Feeding the thousands
Most families surviving on less than £1.60 a day As life-threatening poverty has left Syria’s war-torn families…
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IRAQ: Up to 15,000 more Christians returning home this month
Within just one month up to 15,000 displaced Iraqi Christians are expected to return to the town…
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SYRIA: Aleppo is coming back to life
Parts of Aleppo are coming back to life with people returning in large numbers to the bomb-blasted…
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IRAQ: Help us go home in time to start school
An urgent call to speed up plans to rebuild homes in one of the Iraqi Christian towns…
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IRAQ: Courage to live peacefully
A senior Iraqi bishop has urged the faithful to support Christian families returning home after being driven…
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IRAQ: Charity offers more help for displaced families
Thousands of displaced families in northern Iraq urgently in need of a roof over their heads have…
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MIDDLE EAST: Exhibition raises awareness of the persecuted Church
Leading Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need will hold an art exhibition in Edinburgh later…
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SYRIA: Christian families are returning home
Christian families are returning to war-torn Aleppo from South America, Europe and elsewhere having being forced from…
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IRAQ: Honouring the crucifix that survived Daesh (ISIS)
Westminster’s Cardinal Vincent Nichols and a bishop from Iraq came together in central London to bless a…
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IRAQ: Bishop of Erbil highlights the urgent need of Iraq’s Christians
Archbishop Warda sends video message to the benefactors of Aid to the Church in Need…
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IRAQ: HRH The Prince of Wales meets bishop from Iraq
HRH The Prince of Wales has had a meeting with Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil,…
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IRAQ: Rebuilding of Nineveh Plains set to begin
An “Olive Tree Ceremony” in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains will mark the beginning of…