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DUBAI: Across Iraq, water sources that have been taken for granted and relied upon throughout centuries of hardship, chaos and drought are under threat. So too, as a result, are the livelihoods of many people in the country who find themselves facing unprecedented challenges in accessing one of life’s essential resources.
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(RNS) A group of Chaldean women, sitting around a kitchen table in Michigan on Sunday (March 7), watched on Arabic satellite TV as Pope Francis set foot in their ancestral land on the last full day of his historic papal visit to Iraq.
“It’s like Easter,” said one woman.
It was especially moving for the Christian Iraqi women to see the Roman pontiff in Mosul, the northern Iraq city from which the head of IS once declared its “caliphate.” Now, with the IS without territory and its leader dead, many of the Chaldeans who fled the city in 2014, along with other minorities, have not returned, including some who sat watching the pope on TV.
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