Pope Francis urged Iraqi Christians not to lose hope and not to seek vengeance over their suffering during the Islamic State regime, in a pair of poignant visits March 7 to churches that were desecrated and destroyed by the terrorist group.
A group of priests in Lebanon have quarantined themselves while a pair of their elders are fighting coronavirus. A Catholic hospital in another part of the tiny Mediterranean country has also seen a spread of the COVID-19 as fear of the disease grips the cash-strapped nation.
The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a measure late Nov. 27 to provide humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria and to hold Islamic State perpetrators accountable.
