Bashar Warda

His efforts to support the continuing Christian presence in Iraq were widely noticed through many media interviews and speeches in different universities and councils worldwide, including Georgetown University 2018,[8][9] CNA in 2018,[10] Catholic Herald in 2020,[11] BBC HARDtalk in 2022,[12] Catholic New York Newspaper in 2022,[13] The Tablet in 2022,[14] and Prospect Magazine in 2017.

[15] On 3 December 2019, he gave a speech in the UN Security Council Meeting in New York Concerning the Situation in Iraq[16][17] during the protests of the Iraqi youth in October that year.

In November 2023, shortly after the beginning of the Israel-Hamas War, Archbishop Warda expressed his concern that the conflict could upset regional stability and further affect Christian communities.

Our mission is to give the youth hope and purpose in their lives in their homeland, nourishing their faith and providing them with skills that help them overcome the challenges they face.

[21]"The CUE model encourages the whole family to stay and not to emigrate; their children will have an excellent education to obtain work and therefore a future in Iraq to support themselves and their parents”, he said.

[21] In response to the bombing of Mar Elia Chaldean Catholic Parish in southern Baghdad on 1 August 2004, he built a primary school for the neighborhood to give a chance to the local community to strengthen their roots in their homeland, to live in social cohesion and mutual respect for social diversity, which he believes is a core value of any educational center.

Thus, being appointed by the Chaldean patriarch as the rector of the seminary, he founded the St. Aday and St. Mari complex in Ankawa to allow the seminarians to resume their spiritual, theological, and pastoral formation without interruption.

[29] In early 2020, he founded the Ankawa Humanitarian Committee (AHC),[30] a Non-governmental organization that works on the fundamental challenges of humanitarian and development facing the long-suffering communities in Iraq; including economic poverty, education, women's empowerment, social cohesion, environmental awareness, and the promotion of full rights for all as equal citizens of Iraq.

They also withdrew from an August spiritual retreat and pulled their students from the Chaldean Seminary, which Louis Sako described as a "serious breach" of ecclesial unity.