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Image: Andrew Medichini / AP Pope Francis, surrounded by shells of destroyed churches, leads a prayer for the victims of war at Hosh al-Bieaa Church Square in Mosul, Iraq, once the de-facto capital of ISIS, on March 7, 2021. QARAQOSH, Iraq Pope Francis urged Iraq’s Christians this past Sunday to forgive the injustices against them by Muslim extremists and to rebuild as he visited the wrecked shells of churches and met ecstatic crowds in the community’s historic heartland, which was nearly erased by the Islamic State group’s horrific reign. “Fraternity is more durable than fratricide, hope is more powerful than hatred, peace more powerful than war,” the pontiff said during prayers for the dead in the city of Mosul, with the call for tolerance that has been the central message of his four-day visit to Iraq. ....
Word or Deeds: Shiite Firebrand Pledges to Restore Iraqi Christian Property Christians welcome the âsolidarityâ of controversial anti-American politician and militia leader in advance of expected visit by Pope Francis. Jayson Casper| Image: Fadel Senna / AFP / Getty Images An Iraqi Christian prays in a church in Qaraqosh, a city in the Nineveh Plains near Mosul, in May 2017. If Pope Francis can avoid the complications of COVID-19 travel and get to Iraq in March, he will hear a lot about stolen property. Muqtada al-Sadr, a leading Shiite politician fiercely opposed to the US military presence, has told Christians he will do something about it. ....
Christmas Unites a Divided Iraq Parliamentâs unanimous vote to make Jesusâ birth an annual holiday succeeds where other national holidays have failed. Jayson Casper| Image: Chris McGrath / Getty Images Priests lead a Christmas Day mass at Mar Hanna church in Qaraqosh on December 25, 2016 in Mosul, Iraq. Seventeen years since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the fractious Iraqi nation divided mostly between Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish Muslims remains unable to agree on a national day. But they can agree on Christmas. Last week, the parliament unanimously passed a law to make Christmas a “national holiday, with annual frequency.” The latter phrase gave great “joy and satisfaction” to Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Last October, he presented an official request to Iraqi President Barham Salih to make Christmas a permanent public holiday. ....