Saturday, June 14, 2014

Catholics of Iraq Plead to Pope for Help

The Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul overrun by Islamists have asked Pope Francis and the universal Church for help.

Vatican City (kath.net / KNA) The Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul overrun by Islamists have asked Pope Francis and the universal Church for help. At the same time Archbishop Emil Nona Shimoun announced, according to a statement of the Vatican's Congregation for Eastern Churches on Friday, to keep churches, schools and other facilities for refugees of all religions open.

The head of the Congregation of Eastern Churches, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, reportedly telephoned on Thursday to the Chaldean Archbishop Nona and his Syrian Catholic counterpart, Yohanna Petros Moshe. Sandri complained then, that in Mosul "in these tragic hours, Christians and Muslims have been forced to flee from their homes and their city in order to survive." The region is associated with the biblical figure of Abraham, “is experiencing an exodus of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children again." Further, the cardinal declared solidarity with the Baghdad resident Chaldean Patriarch Raphael I Louis Sako. He pointed to his use of dialogue and national reconciliation. Pray for peace for the Middle East and the whole world Link to kath.net...

3 comments:

CJ said...

What they need is a Pope Eugene III. Instead they will get what Catholics in China got from Benedict xvi. Nothing.

schmenz said...

"Mission accomplished", mouthed the useful idiot George Bush after destroying Iraq at the request of Tel Aviv. And the current useful idiot will continue the destruction. The destruction of Christianity in that region may not have been the main goal of those who promoted the smashing of Iraq and the government that once protected its Christians, but it was certainly one of the "benefits" they seriously considered.

To believe otherwise is to be hopelessly naive.

Anonymous said...

Yeh. While the middle-east burns though they are not all barbarians, burns thanks in large part to "Israel" the Pope kisses and loves the Jews.