By BaghdadhopeSource and photos: Ankawa.com
Kirkuk: They had already met to pray together for peace and reconciliation in Iraq on the 19 of August. They are the heads of all religious and political components of Kirkuk. If the first prayer meeting had taken place in the Sunni mosque of Domez, the second, which saw the participation of the various segments that make up the social fabric of Kirkuk - religious, political and military, Sunnis, Shiites and Christians, Arabs, Kurds and Turkmens -- was held in the Chaldean Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of the city where Archbishop Luis Sako asked everyone to pray for peace, the basis of coexistence, to renounce violence and intolerance, and to work together for the rights of every component of the society.
Basra: priestly ordination for the Armenian Apostolic church in the old church dedicated to the Virgin Mary (1870) in the presence of the bishop of Iraq, Mgr. Avak Asadourian, and of representatives of the Syriac Catholic, Syriac Orthodox and Chaldean churches. 
Erbil: Mass celebrated in the Assyrian of the East church of Mar Gewargis by Mgr. Gewargis Sliwa, bishop of Iraq, Jordan and Russia. Concelebrants: Father Ishan Dawood Philips and Father Shmuel Bahran, parish priest of the church dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Ein Baqara: Opening ceremony of the church of Mar Addai Apostle by Mar Thoma, bishop of Nineveh of the Ancient Assyrian Church of the East. 
