Catholic university opens in Iraq
December 10, 2015
A new Catholic university has opened in Erbil, an Iraqi city of 1.5 million that is capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan.
Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda said in July that the university, which will welcome 250 students per year, is “a way of fighting back against Daesh [the Islamic State] and saying we [Christians] are not going to go away.”
Joining Archbishop Warda at the university’s December 8 opening was Bishop Nunzio Galantino, secretary-general of the Italian Episcopal Conference, which has donated $2.5 million to the project.
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Further information:
- Iraq, Galantino inaugura Università cattolica ad Erbil (Vatican Radio)
- Erbil’s Catholic University to counter the Christian exodus from Mosul (AsiaNews.it)
- Catholic university to open in Iraq (CWN, 7/24)
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