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Fort Worth, Texas, Jun 19, 2012 \/ 12:06 am (CNA<\/a>).- An archbishop and four teachers from Iraq's Kurdistan region are receiving help from a Dallas-based Catholic apostolate, in their effort to expand an English-language school for Chaldean Catholics.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe\u2019re helping them improve their English to better tell the school\u2019s story,\u201d explained Dr. James Patrick, a senior fellow of the Walsingham Society,\u00a0 in a June 18 bulletin. The group is hosting the teachers along with Archbishop Bashar M. Warda, head of the Archdiocese of Erbil in Iraq's north.<\/p>\n

\tPatrick said his society wants to assist the \u201csmall but growing school in Kurdistan,\u201d in order to help members of Iraq's historic Catholic community remain in their homeland. The Chaldean Church predates the growth of Islam, but has suffered massive losses during the Iraq War and its aftermath.<\/p>\n

\tThe four visiting teachers are women in their early twenties who, like Archbishop Warda, follow the unique liturgical and spiritual traditions of Chaldean Catholicism. Their city of Erbil is Iraq's fourth largest, and is regarded as a regional capital.<\/p>\n

\tMembers of the Chaldean-rite church have established an International Baccalaureate school, which currently teaches students in four grades and will soon expand to eight. Eventually, administrators hope to establish twelve grades and a college.<\/p>\n

\tFounded by graduates and associates of Fort Worth's College of St. Thomas More, the Walsingham Society seeks to promote Christian culture and classical education. Its members are training the archbishop and teachers, who have a basic command of English, in composition and presentation.<\/p>\n

\tPatrick and other Walsingham fellows have been teaching the group for three weeks. \u201cThose who brought them here would be proud\u201d of their progress, the senior fellow said in Monday's update.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cTheir visit has helped North Texas, too, to know something about Iraq that has some hope in it,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n

\tIn a recent interview with the National Catholic Register, published June 12, Archbishop Warda recounted the persecution of Iraqi Catholics, while affirming that the country's Christian minority has \u201cthe capability to stay and build a good future for Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe archbishop told the Register that he hoped to \u201craise the awareness of the issues in Iraq to build schools and hospitals,\u201d in order to \u201cstay and build the community,\u201d preserving the Chaldean Church's culture and traditions.<\/p>\n

\tThe group will leave Dallas on Wednesday, continuing its travels in the U.S. to raise awareness of needs and opportunities within the Iraqi Church.<\/p>\n

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