Madre del Perpetuo Socorro de Ankawa (Umm al-Ma’una)
La iglesia caldea de Umm al-Ma’una («Madre del Auxilio», la Madre del Perpetuo Socorro) fue inaugurada el 27 de junio de 2016 por el patriarca caldeo Luis Rafael Sako en Ankawa, el barrio cristiano de Erbil que acogió a los cristianos huidos de la llanura de Nínive ante el avance del Daesh.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- It is dedicated to Mary Mother of the Perpetual Relief, as the icon Pius IX entrusted to the Redeemers in 1866: the church was opened exactly 150 years later.
- It was costed with the offerings of the faithful and welcomes the liturgical and charitable life linked to the pastoral of the refugees of the Nineveh plain.
- In February 2024, his first bell was opened in a ceremony presided over by Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda with a great competition of faithful.
- Next to the temple works the Om al-Maouna school of the Caldea archeparch of Erbil, which shares its name.
Mother of Perpetual Socorro (Ankawa)
Born from the exodus of Nineveh, this church is the Marian sign of the Christian resistance of Ankawa: in his inaugural homily, the Patriarch Sako presented it as a testimony to the link of Iraqi Christians to their land.
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