Sako was born in the city of Zakho on July 4, 1948. He comes from an ethnic Assyrian family of the Chaldean Catholic Church, which has roots in a religious community that has had a presence in the ...

Sako made the landmark visit to Iraq of Pope Francis possible during the 2021 coronavirus pandemic. He told VOA that the pope's visit made a major impression on ordinary Iraqis, but a different ...

Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako (C), the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, greets nuns following a mass at the Church of Our lady in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish ...