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Christian faith stronger than ever in Iraq despite instability, says Mosul archbishop

January 03, 2020

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CWN Editor's Note: ISIS conquered the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014, leading over 100,000 Christians to flee. The Iraqi government and its allies liberated the city in 2017.

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Thu16 January
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Today is Thursday of the First Week in Ordinary Time. The Roman Martyrology commemorates Pope St. Marcellus I (d. 309), who was elected Pope in 308, just at the time when the Emperor Diocletian had spent somewhat his first violence against the Church. In Rome he reorganized the Catholic…

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