Tag: Iraq

CARDINAL Louis Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, has announced he is withdrawing from his headquarters in Baghdad after ...

AMNESTY International recorded 483 executions in 18 countries during 2020, which was a decrease of 26 per cent on 2019 ...

Hope: Hanar Keka is an Iraqi woman sent by the Archbishop of Erbil to study in Australia as part of ...

Pope Francis arrives in a golf cart to visit the destroyed Al-Tahera Syriac Catholic Church in Mosul on March 7. ...

Pope Francis signs a book with a message for Syriac Catholics in Baghdad. Also pictured, from left: Syriac Catholic Patriarch ...

Workers repair the doorway of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh, Iraq. Pope Francis plans to visit Qaraqosh ...

Papal preparations: A nun displays vestments at the Chaldean Catholic Cathedral of St. Joseph in Baghdad. Pope Francis will celebrate ...

Hanar Keka: “(Pope Francis’ visit) will bring a lot of hope, and it will remind people of the real Iraq ...

Peaceful plea: Syriac Catholic Archbishop Youhanna Boutros Moshe of Mosul standing outside St Stephen’s Cathedral in Brisbane on January 8, ...

Sign of the times: A participant in a candlelight vigil Jan. 6 near the White House in Washington holds a ...

All about love: “It’s not about what we expect, and, in the end, life is about love.” HANAR Keka turned ...

Together again, at last: Ninety-seven-year-old Shami Eso (centre) with (from left) her daughter-in-law Ekhlas Ayoob, Jameel Asho, Amer Asho and ...

New life: Shamiran Merkhaal fled Christian persecution in Iraq 10 years ago and is now happy as a teacher in ...

Australian support: Bracken Ridge parish priest Fr Gerry Hefferan presenting a gift from Year 6 St Joseph’s Bracken Ridge to ...

Studentsreturn:Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge with Iraqi students Ban Isaqi (left), Hana Keka and Dr Saveen ...

Calling Australia home: St Francis College, Crestmead students and Syrian refugees Namariq Alasadi and Ropier Swidan with art teacher Annette ...

Hospital pioneers: Saveen Oghana and Ban Isaqi are preparing in Brisbane to be the managers of a new Catholic hospital ...

Brisbane bound: Iraqi priest Fr Douglas Bazi will speak in Brisbane next month for the annual Spirit in the City ...

Reaching out: Ora Duffley with one of the children she met while volunteering in northern Iraq recently. BRISBANE Catholic teacher ...

Kareem and Bushra Patros: “Actually, with my culture, we like to live with Jesus. We keep Jesus in our hearts. ...

Mission work: A displaced woman and child flee violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar, northern Iraq. ...

Welcome visitor: Archbishop Georges Casmoussa at St Joseph’s Church, Bracken Ridge, where he visited refugee families from Iraq. Photo: Emilie Ng ...

Joyful: St Joseph’s and St Anthony’s Bracken Ridge parish priest Fr Gerry Hefferan with celbrating Iraqi parishioners.BRISBANE’S Iraqi Christian refugees ...

Dinner crowd: Happy diners at the end of the evening at The Welcome Dinner Project community dinner at SANDBAG in ...

New home: Archbishop Mark Cole-ridge, parish priest Fr Dan Carroll and Darra’s Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Primary School ...