We always listen to local advice on places to visit - after all you can’t beat local knowledge right ! Everyone told us we had to visit the Sumela Monastery, but was it worth the journey to get there?

Today, he is the head of the monastery, which is located in Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. As well as Fr. Petzold--now an ordained priest in the Chaldean Catholic Church--the ...