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First Christmas Mass in Mosul since 2014—Muslims lend a hand
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“The efforts of the Churches to recreate a stable and peaceful environment for the local population have borne further fruit."
Despite uncertainty, Christians in Iraq, Syria are urged to ‘keep Bethlehem in their hearts’
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“Everyone who is helping to rebuild there is investing their personal courage and vision for the future. That is the foundation for rebuilding relations between ...
NC Register: on Nineveh Plains, ACN Helps with first post-ISIS Christmas
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QARAQOSH, Iraq — In their villages on the Nineveh Plains, Iraq’s Christians are celebrating their first Christmas since the region’s liberation from the Islamic State ...
Post-ISIS, the first Catholic Church is re-consecrated on Nineveh Plains
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"ISIS thought they could eliminate us, and yet it is ISIS that has disappeared and we have returned to Telleskuf."
In Iraq, a Christian dentist returns from exile to serve his people
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"Qaraqosh, which is the largest Christian city in Iraq, is no longer as it was in the past. It has been truly devastated and has ...
Iraqi Christians’ future threatened by referendum crisis
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“It is a clear fact that this situation has created in Christians a state of fear and concern about the possibility that the struggle may ...
Crux covers ACN conference on Christians in northern Iraq
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A recent independence vote in Kurdistan has created the threat of new conflict in northern Iraq, and raised questions about whether this is the right ...
Zenit features talks on Iraq at ACN-backed conference
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“The greatest challenge, then, is to create the social, political and economic conditions to enable a new social cohesion, which favors reconciliation and peace, and ...
Vatican Secretary of State demands respect for Iraqi Christians’ rights
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Beyond the urgency of the physical reconstruction of the Nineveh Plains, the the cardinal said, “there is the more important obligation of reconstructing Iraqi society ...
In northern Iraq, another 15,000 Christians are going home!
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Still, with another 12,000 houses still to be repaired or rebuilt, Father Halemba—who serves as acting chairman of the Nineveh Reconstruction Committee (NRC)—said much more ...