Iraq

Our weakness

On March 19 we celebrated the feast of St. Joseph, the patron of our cathedral. It was a full-fledged feast, the church was packed and there was great joy among our parishioners. However, for us, there was a note of sadness, because it was the last Mass for us with Maher, a young man from […]

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The Vocation of Consecrated Virginity Lived in the World as Part of Consecrated Life in the Iraqi Church

Six years ago consecrated virginity (Ordo Virginum (Canon 604, Code of Canon Law)), this special vocation for women living in the world was missing from our Iraqi Church, till two young women started it on 1st/January 2008, in the feast of the Mother of God.   Though there were other kinds of consecrated life for

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A Youth Meeting over the theme of “Understanding Religion”

Today, Friday 14th/ March/2014 there came a group of young men and women, university students to our Latin Cathedral of St. Joseph and St. Teresa for a meeting over the theme of “Understanding Religion,” presented by Msgr. George Panamthundil, the first secretary of our Apostolic Nuncio in the Vatican Embassy.  There were no communication obstacles,

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Five foreign missionaries witness to years of service to Christ in Iraq

They came from Syria, France, Argentina, Belgium, and India to Mesopotamia. Some of them have been living in Iraq more than forty years to witness to the love of Christ in the land of martyrs. They love Baghdad and its people and decided to continue living and serving this country despite the enormous challenges, hardships

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Christmas with bombs

On December 25th we had a beautiful Christmas with our faithful. As on every year, we had two Masses in the morning, the second of which presided by the apostolic nuncio, His Excellency Giorgio Lingua Nuncio. There were many people at Mass and there was great joy. In the afternoon we got a call from

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