Abby Sewell
Abby Sewell is an author at Religion News Service.
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Lebanese Christian leader says Hezbollah’s fighting with Israel has harmed Lebanon
By Abby Sewell and Bassem Mroue — May 2, 2024
MAARAB, Lebanon (AP) — His comments came as Western diplomats try to broker a de-escalation in the border conflict amid fears of a wider war.
Chaldean patriarch returns to Baghdad after nine months of self-imposed exile amid political dispute
By Abby Sewell and Ali Jabar — April 12, 2024
BAGHDAD (AP) —Cardinal Louis Sako was welcomed warmly by a church packed with members of the country’s Christian minority as he led his first mass in Baghdad on Friday after returning the day before.
Lebanon’s displaced celebrate Ramadan amid fears that border conflict might become the ‘new normal’
By Abby Sewell — March 25, 2024
MARWANIEH, Lebanon (AP) — Those living at the Hotel Montana, which went out of business in 2005, are among an estimated 90,000 people from southern Lebanon who have been displaced by the near-daily clashes between the militant group Hezbollah and Israeli forces.
A feud between a patriarch and a militia leader adds to the woes of Iraqi Christians
By Abby Sewell and Salar Salim — August 4, 2023
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The shrinking religious minority that was also violently targeted by al-Qaida before the rise of IS has been rocked by yet another crisis in the form of a political showdown between two influential Christian figures.
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