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Pope overcomes health concerns to preside over Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Pope overcomes health concerns to preside over Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square

LA Times  

Rallying from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems, Pope Francis led some 60,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday and made a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine. Francis presided over Easter Sunday Mass in a flower-decked St. Peter’s Square and then delivered a heartfelt prayer for peace in his annual roundup …

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No water, no jobs: ISIL survivors struggle in northern Iraq
3 years, 7 months ago

No water, no jobs: ISIL survivors struggle in northern Iraq

Al Jazeera  

When Father Ammar Yako, a Syriac Catholic priest in the majority-Assyrian Christian town of Qaraqosh in northern Iraq, returned to his church in 2016 he found its floors covered in rubble and its artwork pillaged. The economy is static in the city.” After fleeing the ISIL onslaught, many Christians who returned to their millennia-old towns in northern Iraq’s Nineveh Plains …

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Iraqi woman who met the pope sees little chance for change
3 years, 10 months ago

Iraqi woman who met the pope sees little chance for change

Associated Press  

BAGHDAD — The story of Doha Sabah Abdallah’s personal tragedy and loss deeply resonated with Pope Francis during his historic visit last weekend to the northern Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, once devastated by Islamic State group militants. “If I had the resources or if someone gave me the chance to leave this country, I would never come back.” Years after …

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Where IS ruled, pope calls on Christians to forgive, rebuild
3 years, 10 months ago

Where IS ruled, pope calls on Christians to forgive, rebuild

Associated Press  

QARAQOSH, Iraq — Pope Francis urged Iraq’s Christians on Sunday to forgive the injustices against them by Muslim extremists and to rebuild as he visited the wrecked shells of churches and met ecstatic crowds in the community’s historic heartland, which was nearly erased by the Islamic State group’s horrific reign. Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, was at the heart of …

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The Latest: Pope meets father of drowned Syrian refugee boy
3 years, 10 months ago

The Latest: Pope meets father of drowned Syrian refugee boy

Associated Press  

IRBIL, Iraq — The Latest on Pope Francis’ historic visit to Iraq, aimed at rallying the country’s long-beleaguered Christian community and promoting interreligious tolerance : 8 p.m. Pope Francis has met with the father of a Alan Kurdi, a 3-year old Syrian boy who drowned crossing the Mediterranean Sea and whose image drew global attention to the plight of refugees …

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Pope to visit Iraq church damaged by IS militants
3 years, 10 months ago

Pope to visit Iraq church damaged by IS militants

Associated Press  

The scenes are seared in the memory of the Rev. “I never could have imagined that his holiness, the pope, would visit this church, not even in my dreams,” said Yako, who has been overseeing reconstruction at the church. In Qaraqosh, the Syriac Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception — “al-Tahira al-Kubra” in Arabic — became a symbol of its …

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Pope to visit Iraq church damaged by IS militants
3 years, 10 months ago

Pope to visit Iraq church damaged by IS militants

The Independent  

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