Iraqi Christians
Chaldean patriarch returns to Baghdad after nine months of self-imposed exile amid political dispute
By Abby Sewell and Ali Jabar — April 12, 2024
BAGHDAD (AP) —Cardinal Louis Sako was welcomed warmly by a church packed with members of the country’s Christian minority as he led his first mass in Baghdad on Friday after returning the day before.
Orthodox mark Christmas, but the celebration is overshadowed for many by conflict
By The Associated Press — January 8, 2024
(AP) — Orthodox Christians packed churches Saturday night for Christmas Eve services, a holiday overshadowed for many believers by conflict.
A feud between a patriarch and a militia leader adds to the woes of Iraqi Christians
By Abby Sewell and Salar Salim — August 4, 2023
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The shrinking religious minority that was also violently targeted by al-Qaida before the rise of IS has been rocked by yet another crisis in the form of a political showdown between two influential Christian figures.
Protesters briefly storm the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad in protest over Quran burning
By Qassim Abdul-zahra and Ali Jabar — June 30, 2023
BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that it had summoned the Swedish ambassador and called on Sweden's government “to take the necessary measures to stop the repeated insults to the Holy Quran.”
Growing pains for Arab evangelical Christians in the Middle East
By Daoud Kuttab — October 4, 2022
(RNS) — Pressure from Arab governments and other Christian groups has only contributed to evangelicals' cooperation in the region.
The pope’s Iraq visit will make headlines. Can it make life better for religious minorities?
By Knox Thames — February 26, 2021
(RNS) — A sense of foreboding plagues efforts to return Christians and Yazidis to their homelands.
For Iraqi priest, pope’s visit raises hope of restored trust between Christians and Muslims
By Claire Giangravé — February 4, 2021
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Rev. Karam Quasha, a parish priest in northern Iraq, says Francis can mend the ‘broken trust’ between the country’s ancient faiths.
Trump condemns religious persecution amid refugee squeeze
By Elana Schor — September 26, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — The president's promise rang hollow to advocates for persecuted religious minorities seeking refuge in the United States.
Chaldean Christian deported by Trump administration dies in Iraq
By Jack Jenkins — August 8, 2019
(RNS) — A Chaldean Christian man from Michigan who was deported to Iraq has reportedly died because he was unable to obtain insulin to treat his diabetes.
Iraq patriarch looks to life after war with ISIS
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 20, 2017
Without security and stability Christians are not going back home, he said.
Christian heritage found ransacked in monastery retaken from Islamic State
By Jerome Socolovsky — November 21, 2016
KHIDIR ILYAS, Iraq, (Reuters) - The history pages of Iraq's Christian community lie in charred fragments on the floor of a fourth-century monastery near Mosul which Islamic State militants ransacked during a two-year occupation that ended over the weekend.
Iraqi Christians fear extinction, see no relief from Islamic State
By Reuters — March 27, 2016
BAGHDAD — Their numbers have fallen to a few hundred thousand from about 1.5 million before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Someone tell the president: Iraqi Christians are dying (COMMENTARY)
By Kirsten Powers — August 13, 2014
(RNS) The disinterest in the suffering of Iraqi Christians has been a bipartisan travesty.
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