Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda has been named in a federal lawsuit in the United States filed by a dual Iraqi-American woman over claims about his personal, political and business ties to what is essentially the Iraqi mafia.
For years, Archbishop Warda has been a point of reference not only within his Chaldean Catholic community, but for Iraqi Christians generally, especially in the wake of the violent persecution and mass displacement unleashed by ISIS in 2014.
Amid the ISIS-induced mass displacement and the ongoing effort to rebuild after the liberation of the Nineveh Plain in 2017, Warda gained a reputation as an avid entrepreneur and one of the strongest defenders of one of the world’s most persecuted Christian minorities.
