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IRAQ: Sisters look forward to coming home
Religious Sisters in Iraq have set out plans to return to a key town in the ancient…
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IRAQ: Nineveh will arise
Following the liberation of the Nineveh Plains from extremist group Daesh (ISIS) – plans are now underway…
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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…
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IRAQ: Young priest returns home to bless his village
A newly ordinated priest has described returning with the Blessed Sacrament to his home village in northern…
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IRAQ: Is time running out for the country’s Christians?
• UK Parliament warned by Iraq aid coordinator that 1,800-year-old Church community is facing its biggest challenge…
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BLOG: A miracle in Erbil
This is the story of Mar Elia — a community of 120 displaced Iraqi families, amounting to…
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IRAQ: Church announces survival plan for country’s suffering Christians
Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil has unveiled plans to provide a future for Iraq’s displaced Christians –…
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IRAQ: “Jihadists used the church as a shooting range”
Iraqi Christians returning to their homelands trashed by Daesh (ISIS) have described the horror of finding their…
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IRAQ: Extremists booby-trapped toys to stop Christians returning
Extremists driven out of Iraq’s the Nineveh Plains “riddled the region with land mines” and “put bombs…
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IRAQ: ‘Convert or we will shoot you as well’
A Christian family survived two years of terror living under Daesh (ISIS), in an interview with ACN…