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…for Assyrian Christians in Iraq: After Iraq was created with the help of the Assyrians – nicknamed “Britain’s smallest ally” in the First World War – they suffered persecution at the hands of the Arabs, who accused them of being conspirators with their imperialist fellow Christians. The1933 massacre of 3,000 civilians in Dohuk, northern Iraq,…

From the Cleveland Plain-Dealer: For the past 31 years, the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate, a Polish order founded in 1878, have ministered to the ethnic elderly of Cleveland – the shut-ins, the abandoned, the ailing and lonely. Each weekday, five sisters of the group make their rounds to meet the spiritual, emotional, psychological and…

The Palm/Passion Sunday reports are WONDERFUL…from all over, including a prison, including China. Read them…and join in. All I can say is…someday, I want to be part of a Palm Sunday procession that’s led by a guy on a horse! (or a donkey) Meanwhile…around the world. (click on photos for credits and captions) (More photos…

Are any of your parishes doing Tenebrae? And other Christian churches in your area? I’m curious. The name “Tenebrae” has been given because this Office is celebrated in the hours of darkness, formerly in the evening or just after midnight, now the early morning hours. There is an impressive ceremony, peculiar to this Office, which…
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