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...A worshipper prays during Mass in 2018 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Beijing. Christians and others practicing their faith experienced serious challenges to religious freedom around the world this year, heightened by dangers posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Damir Sagolj, Reuters) ...Bob Fu, president of China Aid, a Texas-based aid organization for Chinese Christians, speaks during a forum titled "Religious Persecution 75 years After the Holocaust" at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington Feb. 5...

Archbishop Bashar Warda, pictured on Feb. 11, 2015. Credit: Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk. Rome Newsroom, Dec 18, 2020 / 08:00 am (CNA).- Iraqi Archbishop Bashar Warda has said that Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to the country could be a turning point for the country’s diminished Christian population, who face ongoing challenges amid Iraq’s unfolding economic crisis. In an interview with CNA, the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Erbil said that Pope Francis’ March 5-8 apostolic trip would be “historic.” It will be the first papal trip to Iraq, a country where Christianity dates back ...

Home   AINA News   News   Editorials   OpEd   Articles   Reports   Books   Maps   Letters   Links   Contact   Subscribe   Login   •  Last update: 17:30 GMT  •   Syndicated News By John Cookson Posted 2020-12-15 01:56 GMT Archbishop Bashar Warda.There was an armed guard on the front and rear gates at St Joseph's Church in the Ankawa district of Erbil. "Mostly for show," assured the Archbishop's aide with a smile as I stepped in. Security was tight for a reason. Six years before, the jihadists of the so-called Islamic State had much of western Iraq in their gr...

15 Dec 2020 Iraqi Archbishop Bashar Warda has underscored the “immense” historic importance of Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Iraq, as Christians’ survival in the country hangs in the balance. The pope’s journey to Iraq “is already filling our communities with immense excitement and pride,” said Warda, the archbishop of Erbil, in a December 12 interview with the National Catholic Register. This visit to the Christians of Iraq “will be a massive lift for a people who have been marginalized and pushed to the very edge of their own existence after 2,000 years,” the archbishop...

With Iraq trip upcoming, Pope Francis makes appeal for peace in Middle East After announcing that he would travel to Iraq in March, Pope Francis spoke about the country’s worsening humanitarian crisis in a video, calling for peace and stability. Iraqi Christians pray at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, damaged by Islamic State fighters during their occupation of Qaraqosh, east of Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 12, 2016. Qaraqosh, the biggest Christian town on the Nineveh Plains in Iraq’s north, fell to the Islamic State group in 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) December 10, 2020 V...