Canon Andrew White is the Chaplain of St George’s Anglican Church in Baghdad, Iraq, which he has led since 1998. He is also the founder and president of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East.
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Canon Andrew White
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Canon Andrew White is the Chaplain of St George’s Anglican Church in Baghdad, Iraq, which he has led since 1998. He is also the founder and president of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East. The organization exists to support Canon White’s unique work at St George’s by providing a spiritual home, medical care, humanitarian relief and the promotion of reconciliation among different religious groups in the heart of Baghdad’s Red Zone.
Canon White is the recipient of numerous awards and international recognitions for his dedication to the pursuit of peace, which has included years of service in Israel and Palestine. Canon White negotiated the end of the Bethlehem siege in 2002. In Iraq, he conducted peace talks between opposing sectarian factions that led to the first joint Sunni/Shia fatwa against violence.
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