BAGHDAD A prominent Iraqi Christian leader announced on Saturday he would leave Baghdad for the autonomous Kurdistan region, denouncing the president’s role in a “disgusting” campaign against him.Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, the patriarch of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church and architect of Pope Francis’ historic visit to the country in 2021, is a key interlocutor between the
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Christians in Iraq protested a decision by Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid to withdraw a decade-old decree recognizing Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako as the head of the Chaldean Church "in Iraq and the world" and allowing him to legally protect the assets of Christians and the local church.
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