Although a devout Christian, Eva Aboona missed the Palm Sunday church services that launched Holy Week on April 9.

Pope Francis said Mass at the Chaldean Catholic cathedral in Baghdad on the second day of a three-day visit to Iraq intended to strengthen the hope of the country’s persecuted Christian minority ...

Denomination: Chaldean Catholic. Founded locally: 1973. Senior pastor: Father Michael J. Bazzi (Cathedral is also seat of Bishop Sarhad Yawsip) Congregation size: Together with St. Michael's, St ...

Currently the plumpish, bespectacled priest lives at a Catholic hospital, celebrates mass in its chapel, depends for clothing and pocket money on the $2 or $3 his Chaldeans give in weekly collections.

Pope Francis walks next to Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad, right, as he arrives to celebrate Mass at the Chaldean Catholic Cathedral of St. Joseph in Baghdad March 6, 2021. (CNS/Paul Haring) ...

The Chaldean Catholic Church, based in Iraq, is one of the 22 Eastern Catholic churches in full communion with Rome. Chaldean Catholics trace their faith back to the second century and still speak ...

Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, during a celebratory Holy Mass on the anniversary of Saint Meskenta's martyrdom, at the Saint Hannah Monastery for Chaldean ...

Bishop Saad Sirop Hanna, apostolic visitor for Chaldean Catholics in Europe, is pictured during a Zoom interview with Catholic News Service from his office in Södertälje, Sweden, Nov. 3, 2021 ...

Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako greets parishioners after a mass following his return from nine months of self-imposed exile in northern Iraq's Kurdish region, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday April 12, 2024.

Pope Benedict XVI on Dec. 19 accepted the resignation of Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, and called the Chaldean bishops to Rome for a synod to elect his successor.