NAMARIQ Alasadi lost a pair of shoes and nearly all hope when she made the “crazy journey” to Australia to escape the deadly war in Syria. The young woman who dodged death in her home country arrived in Australia in 2016 with “almost nothing left”. “It was the hardest thing I have ever done,” Namariq, a Year 9 student at ... Read More »
AN Iraqi-born priest who was kidnapped and tortured by Islamic extremists for nine days says Australia is seen as “the promise land” for thousands of Christians still suffering from genocide in the Middle East. Bagdhad-born Fr Douglas Bazi of the Chaldean Catholic Church told The Catholic Leader that Australia was leading the way in welcoming thousands of Christians forced to ... Read More »
PROVINCIAL leader of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd for Lebanon and Syria Sister Marie Claude Naddaf is shaken by what she witnessed visiting Irbil, Iraq. Representing the Union of the Superior Generals of women religious in Lebanon, Sr Naddaf accompanied Catholic Near East Welfare Association on its September 2-5 mission to the capital of the Kurdish region in Iraq. ... Read More »
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