After a controversial Iraqi figure claimed to have met with Pope Francis, the Vatican explained that he was only one of many people with whom the Pontiff exchanged a few words after his regular Wednesday public audience.
Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako reports that the people of Iraq were “very afraid” for their country’s future in light of violent clashes around Baghdad this week.
Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako has warned that a slowdown in the global economy, combined with the fallout from the war in Ukraine, has increased the pressure on Christians to emigrate from the Middle East.
Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad has confirmed that he plans to step down when he reaches his 75th birthday in a little less than a year.