Catholic education is taking another step forward in Irbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region, affirming the country's historical leadership role in academia. In the fall, Mar Qardakh School, a ...

The Mar Thomas Church in Mosul, Iraq (Illustrative ... were connected to Saint Simon ‘the Zealot,’ a first-century apostle of Jesus; Mor Gabriel, bishop of the Tur Abdin hilly region ...

the Apostle Thomas is believed to have gotten all the way to the north of India. On his way founding churches, he went through the areas now called Iran and Iraq. Called variously (and in ...

By Jane Arraf BARTELLA, Iraq — Near the entrance to a small ... Christian towns on the Nineveh Plains, where the apostle Saint Thomas is said to have converted the polytheistic population ...

Iraqi Americans across metro Detroit are hoping that Pope Francis' historic visit to Iraq that started Friday ... formally known as St. Thomas the Apostle USA. "It's a message of solidarity ...

Their ancestors, many believe, were converted by the Apostle Thomas in the first century ... of early Christianity — Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and, perhaps the least well-known destination, Kerala ...

Christians had been leaving Iraq since 2003 ... historically Christian towns on the Nineveh Plains, where the apostle Saint Thomas is said to have converted the polytheistic population just ...

the Apostle Thomas is believed to have gotten all the way to the north of India . On his way founding churches, he went through the areas now called Iran and Iraq. Called variously (and in ...