Prince of Wales meets bishop from Iraq

HRH The Prince of Wales had a meeting with Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, northern Iraq at Clarence House, in central London on Wednesday - a week after reconstruction began on homes damaged by Daesh (ISIS) in northern Iraq’s Nineveh Plains.

The archbishop is working with other bishops on plans to enable a partial repopulation of towns and villages in Nineveh whose inhabitants were forced to flee when the extremists seized the area in August 2014.

Archbishop Warda is in the UK at the invitation of Aid to the Church in Need, which has been a significant donor of emergency aid for the displaced communities.

Church organisations such as ACN have been major contributors of food, shelter, medicine and schooling for IDPs being cared for in Archbishop Warda’s diocese.

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