One can not say that Father Enrique didn’t know what he was getting into when he arrived in Baghdad in November. “My brother has been living here for five years,” says the Argentine, who, like his brother Luis, belongs to the Institute of the Incarnate Word, an Argentinean religious order. He also knows the Middle […]
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Fr. Jorge Cortés, IVE missionary in Iraq, was received, together with Fr. Carlos Walker, Superior General of the IVE, in a private audience by the Holy Father on Saturday, November 15th. Fr. Jorge recounted about the meeting: “The Pope greeted us standing, very close to the door through which we had entered. After we had
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When we startedourblog “Friends of Iraq” along with its facebook page, in threelanguages, we did not imagine thatit would grow so quicklyto what itis now. We had watched with sadness that Iraq had no friends, only people with their own private interests who used the situation it to their own advantage. Aside from such interests
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Exclusive interview by María Laura Avignolo In Iraq, at least 250,000 Christians and Yazidis, one of the oldest sects in the world, are running away by thousands from the beheadings, crucifixions and executions by ISIS, the Islamic Sunni fundamentalists, Army of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Terror was planted with obvious brutality.
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The other day I talked to a lady who told us the following occurrence: She is a Sunni Muslim, the widow of a Shiite husband. Their children are Shiite because it is common here that the children follow the religion of the father. This lady called her relatives who are in the north, and they
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We always say that it is difficult to explain the situation in this country (i.e how we are doing) and the events of the recent weeks do not make it any easier to do so. For months now, an area located in mid-western Iraq, the region of Anbar, has been hard hit. It is the
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