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People walk past damaged buildings at the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria Dec. 2, 2020. Pope Francis sent a video message Dec. 10 to an online meeting about the Syrian and Iraqi humanitarian crises. (CNS photo/Omar Sanadiki, Reuters)

Pope encourages church's efforts to bring peace, aid to Syria, Iraq

Carol Glatz|Dec 10, 2020|3 Min Read

Displaced women and children wearing protective masks wait in the medical center of a camp in Dahuk, Iraq, March 7, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Ari Jalal, Reuters)

World

In Iraq, aid groups face lockdown constraints trying to help displaced

Dale Gavlak|Apr 17, 2020|4 Min Read

Iraqi Christians in Baghdad leave Christmas Mass at St. George Chaldean Church Dec. 25, 2019. (CNS photo/Khalid al Mousily, Reuters)

World

Mideast Catholic patriarchs pray for those suffering, appeal for dialogue

Doreen Abi Raad|Dec 26, 2019|3 Min Read

Fr. Georges Jahola in Al-Tahira church in Bakhdida in November 2016, shortly after the town's liberation. (Courtesy of Fr. Jahola via CNA)

World

Cathedral in Iraq's largest Christian town to be rebuilt in 2020

Courtney Mares|Dec 19, 2019|3 Min Read

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, pauses in prayer before the tombs of priests killed during a terrorist attack in 2010 in the Syriac Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Deliverance in Baghdad. The cardinal was visiting Iraq Dec. 24-28. (CNS photo/Vatican Media/file via Crux)

Faith

Martyrdom cause for All Hallow’s Eve church massacre in Iraq completes first phase

Inés San Martín|Oct 31, 2019|5 Min Read

Family members of victims react while praying during the reopening ceremony of St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 12, 2019, months after it was closed because of an Easter bombing. (CNS photo/Dinuka Liyanawatte, Reuters)

World

South and East Asia now the hotbed of Christian persecution, report finds

Matt Hadro|Oct 25, 2019|6 Min Read

Displaced Kurds stuck at a border near Derik, Syria, wait to try to cross into Iraq Oct. 21, 2019. (CNS photo/Muhammad Hamed, Reuters)

World

They come at night: Syrians flee to Iraq as cease-fire set to expire

Dale Gavlak|Oct 22, 2019|3 Min Read

A fire is seen Oct. 16, 2019, in the Syrian town of Ras al Ain from the Turkish border city of Ceylanpinar. In an Oct. 17 plea, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese of the Military Services, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, urged countries choose "dialogue over confrontation" to resolve their differences. (CNS photo/Stoyan Nenov, Reuters)

World

Bishops in Middle East urge prayer for northern Syria

Courtney Mares|Oct 17, 2019|4 Min Read

Turkey-backed Syrian rebel fighters hand bread to civilians in the border city of Tal Abyad, Syria, Oct.15, 2019. Humanitarian concerns are growing as people caught in the crosshairs of the Turkish incursion into northeastern Syria try to flee for safety, and groups are scrambling to aid them. (CNS photo/Khalil Ashawi, Reuters)

World

Humanitarian groups scramble to help people fleeing northeast Syria

Dale Gavlak|Oct 17, 2019|4 Min Read

A truck loaded with humanitarian aid is seen in Fishkhabur, Iraq, Oct.15, 2019, heading to Syria for displaced families who fled violence. As of Oct. 15, the United Nations estimates that at least 160,000 people have been displaced, but 400,000 are in need of humanitarian aid as the Turkish military and its allied Syrian rebels, including Islamic State and al-Qaida militants, press deeper into northeastern Syria, battling Kurdish and Syriac Christian forces. (CNS photo/Ari Jalal, Reuters)

World

Caritas works to help Syrians displaced by Turkish bombings

Dale Gavlak|Oct 15, 2019|3 Min Read

(Shutterstock via CNA)

World

Syrian Christians face new threat from Turkey, human rights group warns

Catholic News Agency|Oct 8, 2019|3 Min Read

A Catholic church destroyed by Islamic State militants in Karamdes, Iraq, is examined by a priest March 6, 2018. The genocide conducted by the Islamic State against Christian communities in Iraq and Syria has turned into continued harassment by Iran-backed militias and shows no signs of abating soon, said speakers at a Sept. 26, 2019, hearing in Washington. (CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Irbil)

World

Militias' ongoing harassment of Christians in Iraq, Syria focus of hearing

Kurt Jensen|Sep 30, 2019|3 Min Read

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