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September 6, 2012
Church Ruins Are a Memento of Iraqi Christians' Glorious Past
by By Kay Johnson/Associated Press
A hundred yards or so from taxiing airliners, Iraqi archaeologist Ali al-Fatli
is showing a visitor around the delicately carved remains of a church that may
date back some 1,700 years to early Christianity.
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January 4, 2012
Little fanfare accompanies Iraq War's end
by Lolita C. Baldor and Rebecca Santana
Nearly nine years after American troops stormed across the Iraq border in a
blaze of shock and awe, U.S. officials quietly ended the bloody and bitterly
divisive conflict -- but the debate over whether
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December 2, 2011
Nineveh plan looks attainable
by Weam Namou
The clock is ticking. The Sunnis, the Shias and the Kurds of Iraq await the
complete withdrawal of U.S. troops that is to take place by the holidays, each
group anxious to pursue their simmering plans.
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October 28, 2011
U.S. Drops Plans to Keep Troops in Iraq
by Associated Press
The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end
withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press reports. The decision to pull out
fully by January will effectively end more than
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August 30, 2011
Iraq Today
More Churches Bombed
A church in the
Iraqi city of Kirkuk was bombed on August 15, bringing the total to three
within less than two weeks.
Nobody was
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July 28, 2011
Iraqi leader's remarks disappoint
by Weam Namou
Christians should not pursue the idea of an autonomous region in the Nineveh
Plain and instead learn to live with their countrymen. That opinion by Osama Al
Nujaifi, key leader of the Sunni-backed
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July 28, 2011
Iraq Today
by Compiled by Joyce Wiswell
New Church Opens in Iraq
Iraq's first
new church since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion opened last month in a poor
Christian neighborhood in Kirkuk.
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June 29, 2011
Cardinal Delly is at peace with Iraq situation
by Weam Namou
Cardinal Mar Emmanuel Delly III said his recent visit to the United States was
simple to explain: "A Father wanting to see and rejoice with his children and
the children wanting to see and rejoice with
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April 28, 2011
Ambassador says yes, but U.S. Chaldeans must help
by Vanessa Denha-Garmo
Open dialogue and emotional concerns about Iraqi Christians was the atmosphere
at Shenandoah Country Club last month during a luncheon U.S. Congressman Gary
Peters hosted with Ambassador Peter W. Bodde,
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November 4, 2010
Mar Delly Speaks on Chaldean Plight in Iraq
by Robert Moynihan
An old, white-bearded man walked out of the Synod aula and down the wide,
sloping steps toward the waiting cars and buses, his long robe sweeping the
square grey Vatican City cobblestones. He quickly
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July 28, 2010
The ordination of Bishop Warda
by Joan Lewis
I recently returned from my second trip to Iraq this year, a weeklong,
joy-filled celebration of the episcopal ordination of Fr. Bashar Warda, the new
bishop of Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. Erbil had been
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June 28, 2010
Tensions boil over at Iraq meeting
by Weam Namou
Things became so heated at a June 1 town hall meeting on Iraq that the
speakers, members of the U.S. State Department, had to be escorted out by
police officers
This was the
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