Nearly 2,000 young people from Christian youth groups across Iraq gathered for the seventh annual Ankawa Youth Gathering held Aug. 22–24 in the Mar Elia Shrine Courtyard in Ankawa-Erbil.

An image of Pope Francis hand-painted by Iraqi youth in Qaraqosh ahead of Pope Francis’s March 5-8 visit to Iraq. (Credit: Photo Courtesy of Fr. Roni Momika.) ...