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So, as much as we all like to whip right through the hand motions, the next time you make the Sign of the Cross, please slow down and think of those who have gone before. What they believed is what you believe. What they professed is what you profess.  Remember, it’s not just a symbol. As this year begins to wind down, remember, it’s a proclamation, “Ah… You must be Catholic.

Archbishop Warda said that only 150,000 Christians remain in Iraq, out of the 1.2 million who lived there before 2002.

A Christian group seeks to establish icons of the Virgin Mary in churches throughout certain parts of the world to remind people of faith to pray for their fellow believers who face persecution.

A Christian group seeks to establish icons of the Virgin Mary in churches throughout certain parts of the world to remind people of faith to pray for their fellow believers who face persecution.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Signs of hope exist, but Christians continue to be concerned about inadequate security and few job opportunities

For a pope often accused of breaking with his immediate predecessors, this decision places Francis squarely in continuity with Pope John Paul II.

CAMBRIDGE -- Archbishop Bashar Warda recalled the words of Pope Francis when he asserted that The Church in Iraq is alive despite years of conflict and persecution in that country during a recent talk at the Harvard Catholic Center.

Hundreds of Americans from around the country gathered on the National Mall Saturday for the third-annual March for the Martyrs. 

Hundreds of Americans from around the country gathered on the National Mall Saturday for the third-annual March for the Martyrs. 

Father Ragheed Ganni / Chaldean PatriarchateErbil, Iraq, Aug 19, 2022 / 02:40 am (CNA).It has been fifteen years since the martyrdom of Father Ragheed Ganni, the Chaldean priest of the Holy Spirit parish and the secretary of the Bishop of Mosul, the martyr Archbishop Faraj Rahho. Father Ganni may soon be given the title blessed. Father Ganni, considered one of the most influential martyrs of the Catholic Church in Iraq, was killed by fanatical terrorists on June 3, 2007, after celebrat...