We Have Family in Iraq

From the Dominican Sisters of Adrian February 20, 2019, Adrian, Michigan – Three U.S. Dominican women gave a report during a February 17 webinar on their experiences as a delegation to the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Iraq. Adrian Dominican Sisters Rose Ann Schlitt, OP, and Nancy Jurecki, OP, and Gloria Escalona, a member […]

Dominican Family Members, Associates, and Friends, I’m pleased to inform you that a delegation of U.S. Dominicans will travel to Iraq in late September, almost a year after having had postponed their trip because of instability in Iraqi Kurdistan. The funds your congregations and provinces so generously provided a year ago will fund this trip […]

Dominican Sisters Conference Announces Delegation to Iraq Plans for solidarity visit is contingent on outcome of Kurdish independence vote Three U.S. Dominican women planning to visit their counterparts in Iraq are awaiting word from the sisters in Iraq to determine whether the outcome of the non-binding referendum on Kurdish independence held on Monday (today, yesterday) […]

Below is a YouTube video showing the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, Iraq, return to what’s left of their homes and their church. In the video, Sister Luma Khudr is interviewed.  

Below is a printable worship aid for a novena to pray for the Dominican family in Iraq, available in four languages. From the beginning of the sheet: On the night of August 6, 2014, Daesch (ISIS) swept across the Nineveh Plain of northern Iraq causing hundreds of thousands to flee to relative safety in the Kurdish […]

The Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, Iraq, will be having their Chapter from July 1 – 10, 2016. We invite you to print out this prayer and join them in prayer. Download the image here for printing with the artwork. Text: Jesus touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.  (Matthew 20:34) […]