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April 28, 2014

Iraqis in Jordan go to the polls, hoping for stability at home

An Iraqi woman living in Jordan casts her ballot at a polling station in a government school in Amman April 27. Iraqi Catholic refugees, along with their exiled countrymen, are voting in the first parliamentary polls since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. tro ops from their nation.

AMMAN, Jordan - A steady stream of Iraqi refugees, smiling and displaying purple index fingers, emerged from a polling station in the Hashemi Shamali district, where the majority of these urban refugees live in the Jordanian capital.

Published in International
March 20, 2013

U.S. responsibilities to Iraq many on 10th anniversary of 2003 invasion

esidents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in late February in Baghdad. A decade after the 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S.-led forces, Catholic observers say America has broad responsibilities to the Iraqi people for reparations in the aftermath of war and long occupation.

WASHINGTON - Attending the installation of Patriarch Louis Sako as the new leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, looked around at the large crowd gathered in St. Joseph Cathedral and what he saw gave him a sense of hope.

Published in International