Chaldean Christians in the US, delighted with pope's visit, say it comes too late
(RNS) — A group of Chaldean women, sitting around a kitchen table in Michigan on Sunday (March 7), watched on Arabic satellite TV as Pope Francis set foot in their ancestral land on the last full day of his historic papal visit to Iraq. “It’s like Easter,” said one woman. It was especially moving for the Christian Iraqi women to see the Roman pontiff in Mosul, the northern Iraq city from which the head of IS once declared its “caliphate.” Now, with the IS without territory and its leader dead, many of the Chaldeans who fled the city in 2014, along with other minorities, have not r...
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