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Iraqi patriarch: Situation perhaps 'darkest and most difficult period'

Thursday, July 10, 2014 10:51

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Dale Gavlak | Catholic News Service

A Christian woman who fled from the violence in Mosul, Iraq, held her daughter as her baby slept June 27 at a shelter in Irbil, Iraq. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad said the city of Mosul “is almost empty of Christians.”

AMMAN, Jordan — The patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad called the current situation in his country “perhaps the darkest and most difficult period in (the Church's) recent history.”

In a telephone interview with Catholic News Service July 7, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako also reiterated his appeal for the safe release of two nuns and three orphans believed kidnapped in the militant-held area of northern Iraq June 28.

He said that there has been no word about the group's whereabouts or who may have abducted them, despite assurances of help from many quarters.

Source: http://stlouisreview.com/article/2014-07-09/iraqi-patriarch