Cardinal Dolan visits displaced in northern Iraq
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan (center), the archbishop of New York, visits with students displaced by war at the Al Bishara School run by the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena in Ankawa, near Erbil, Iraq, on April 9, 2016. On Dolan's right is Bashar Matti Warda, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Erbil. On the far left is Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, New York. On the far right is Sister Huda Sheeto, the school's principal.
Dolan, chair of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, was in Iraqi Kurdistan with other church leaders to visit with Christians and others displaced by ISIS. The Dominican Sisters were themselves displaced by ISIS, and have established schools and other ministries among the displaced.
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