The Catholic University of Erbil in Ankawa, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Credit: Aid to the Church in Need. / nullKönigstein, Germany, May 10, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA).A Catholic charity said on Monday that there are "signs of hope" for Iraq's beleaguered Christian minority despite insecurity, economic challenges, and political instability.Speakers from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), a pontifical foundation offering financial support to Iraqi Christians, gave a cautiously optimistic assessment of the community's future at a virtual press conference on May 9. Thomas Heine-Geldern, executive president of ACN International, told journalists that he had recently returned from his third visit to the Middle Eastern country.He said that on his first visit, in 2014, there was an atmosphere of fear amid the advance of the Islamic State. On the second, in 2018, "the whole mood was very depressed." "And now, 2022, there are a lot of signs of hope," he said, "and still a lot of requirem...