Iraqi Churches Cancel Christmas Festivities. December 22, 2010 / 9:34 PM EST / AP ... despite what she called the government's failure to protect her small minority.

Around 300 faithful attended the first mass in the 80-year-old church of Um al-Mauna -- "Our Lady of Perpetual Help" after it was fully renovated. They prayed and took photos on mobile phones. "I ...

For Father Martin Banni, pastor of St. Korkis Chaldean Church in Karamlesh, Iraq, the memories of Aug. 6, 2014, remain vivid. Tuesday, July 01, 2025 A service of EWTN News ...

Despite geopolitical tensions, dozens of Jews, including Israelis, have journeyed to shrine in Kurdish city of Alqosh since ...

Christians are returning to Mosul but so far in small numbers. Georgena Habbaba on her wedding day in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chaldean Catholic Church in Mosul, Iraq, on Oct. 14, 1998.

Christians staged a small protest in Baghdad over Sako’s departure, ... Ekram believes he got short shrift from both the Iraqi government and the church. “We never saw the patriarch,” he said.

With chants and ululations, Iraqi Christians celebrated the inauguration of a recently-restored Chaldean Catholic Church in Mosul on Friday, years after jihadists turned it into a religious police ...

With chants and ululations, Iraqi Christians celebrated the inauguration of a recently-restored Chaldean Catholic Church in Mosul on Friday, years after jihadists turned it into a religious police ...

Iraq church gives hope for Christians after IS atrocities. ... jihadists had scribbled their noms de guerre on the church's walls. But today, the small church has restored its former design, ...

Mosul, Iraq's second city, has historically been among the Arab world's most culturally diverse cities -- a place of mosques, churches, shrines and tombs. But when the Islamic State group (IS) swept ...