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By MEMRI – Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon, said in a December 27, 2020 interview on Rudaw Network (Iraqi Kurdistan) that Iraq should be a civil state [...]

By Fionn Shiner – Aid to the Church in Need –  More than three years on from the defeat of Daesh (ISIS), Islamists in Iraq are as determined as ever to rid their towns and cities of [...]

By Asia News – Iraq must preserve its “unity” in the “diversity of its components” and their “multiplicity”, although in recent years “most [...]

By Emma Green – The Atlantic –  The call came in 2014, shortly after Easter. Four years earlier, Catrin Almako’s family had applied for special visas to the United States. Catrin’s [...]

By WorldTribune –  U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec. 11 signed legislation to direct U.S. humanitarian assistance to persecuted religious minorities in Iraq and Syria who were targeted [...]

By Sirwan Kajjo – Gatestone Institute Despite losing control of Raqqa and other major strongholds in Syria and Iraq, ISIS continues to keep many of the women it kidnapped during its [...]

By Michael Kelly – Catholic News Service A Chaldean Catholic archbishop from southern Iraq has warned that the country’s beleaguered Christian community still feels pessimistic about [...]

By Miriam Diez Bosch – Aleteia –  “It’s been an authentic genocide, according to the definition in international law.” “For me, it has been a very intense experience [...]

By Lolita Brayman – Foreign Policy – The Trump administration has decided to deport Iraqi Christians back to their dangerous homeland, and the timing is more than a little suspicious. The [...]

By Mark Chamoun – thepavlovictoday (via AINA) – It has now been a year since a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry determined that ISIS’ violence against the [...]