In Iraq, I witnessed death and tragedy, and without faith, I had no way to process it.
Iraq
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After the Hobby Lobby scandal, a spotlight on antiquities sales in Israel
Israel’s 1978 Antiquities Law was tightened in 2012 and again last year, so that all licensed dealers are now required to share images of everything in their inventory.
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Syriac Catholic patriarch says West has ‘betrayed’ Christian minorities
He said the West ignores Syrian and Iraqi Christians because they are neither oil-rich nor a terrorist threat.
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Mosul residents flee into desert as ISIS is driven from the city; Catholic Relief Services responds
Many have simply walked from the city to the desert camps, a distance of 20 to 30 kilometers, says Mr. El-Mahdi. Now they confront hunger, thirst and the desert’s unforgiving sun. “The summer heat is brutal.”
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Confessions of a CIA interrogator
Jerome Donnelly reviews “Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein” by John Nixon.
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The next few months will decide Christians’ fate in a scarred Iraq
“ISIS had written really vile things about Jesus and the church. The convent was burned and gutted. Everything was stolen. Anything holy in their mind was burned.”
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Holy Week peace march in Iraq receives Chaldean patriarch support
For the patriarch, Holy Week culminating in the Easter celebration offers a fresh hope to breathe new life into prayer and reflection, reconciliation and dialogue.
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Pope Francis urges protection for civilians as U.S. reviews airstrike deaths in Mosul
Pope Francis joined a chorus of humanitarian relief and human rights critics who urged the United States to do more to avoid noncombatant deaths.
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Searching for George W. Bush in his portraits of the soldiers he sent to war
Bush’s new exhibition features 66 paintings of wounded veterans whom the former president has come to know.
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People have stopped paying attention to Iraqi refugees in Jordan, and it’s getting ‘critical and dangerous’
“This is now the third year of displacement for the Iraqi Christians. It’s very tough. Donations are becoming less, while global attention is waning.”