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Aid to the Church in Need, an organization which helps Christians suffering persecution or oppression in more than 130 countries, has released a report detailing how Christians suffer 75 percent of religious persecution in the world. Archbishop Bashar Warda or Erbil Iraq and Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh announced the report, Persecuted and [...]

This is the fourth in a series of posts about J.D. Long-Garcia’s trip to the Middle East last year. He didn’t finish the series then, but is revisiting it now, a year after the articles were first published in the paper. Finding shelter First thing in the morning, after having, among other things, hummus for [...]

It’s been exactly a year since we published our print coverage of The Church in the Middle East. With that in mind, I thought it would be appropriate to finish the incomplete “Diary from the Middle East.” Meeting Iraqi refugees My mother’s 3,000 “be careful” admonitions ring through my head as the driver whips through [...]

It’s been 10 months since J.D. shared the plight of Iraqi Christians with Catholic Sun readers. I must admit I haven’t heard much about them from Catholic or mainstream media since then. Until this week, that is. I heard during a K-Love news update this weekend that Iraq launched its first Christian radio station. While [...]

Every once in a while, a story falls through the cracks and doesn’t make it onto our Web site, www.catholicsun.org. There are many reasons for it, but mostly because we don’t have a full-time Web master. Instead, our editor, Rob DeFrancesco, shoulders upkeep and design responsibilities for the award-winning site. He has to. There just [...]