{"id":15687,"date":"2016-06-15T06:39:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T06:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=15687"},"modified":"2016-06-15T06:39:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T06:39:05","slug":"iraq-patriarch-sako-message-to-muslims-during-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/06\/15\/iraq-patriarch-sako-message-to-muslims-during-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"IRAQ &#8211; Patriarch Sako \u2013 Message to Muslims  during Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">IRAQ &#8211; Sako \u2013Message to Muslims during Ramadan<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Below is the letter of Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon, to Muslims on the month of Ramadan. The text has been provided by the Patriarchate:<\/p>\n<p>Sisters and Brothers,<\/p>\n<p>We as a Church wish you a \u201cRamadan \u2013 Fasting\u201d and bind our wishes with yours, expressing our solidarity, sincere feelings, respect and prayers from the bottom of our hearts that may God watch over Iraq and protect Iraqis.<\/p>\n<p>The month of Ramadan provides a privilege time for fasting, praying, repent and changing of mentality and approaches (metanoia) in order to live in peace with oneself and with others. It is an opportunity to practice compassion and charity since a person cannot be a real believer unless he is honest, peacemaking and serving.<\/p>\n<p>In such harsh and worrying circumstances that have troubled the country, leaving thousands killed and wounded, millions of displaced people and huge destruction, I urge you to make this month an \u201cexceptional Ramadan\u201d in terms of:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Renouncing sectarianism and fundamentalism<\/li>\n<li>Building a culture of reconciliation<\/li>\n<li>Promoting shared values of tolerance, neighborhood and friendship<\/li>\n<li>Endorsing peaceful coexistence, dialogue and mutual respect.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This way, you will make the celebration of the upcoming \u201cAl-Fitre\u201d, a double feast: where you will rejoice the religious occasion as well as the triumph of reconciliation, and peace. On this event, we extend our compliments to the Iraqi Forces, for their victory, hoping that all the Iraqi territories will be released from ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>To conclude, be sure that we will be praying during this month, that your fasting and praying will enlighten and direct the hearts of all Iraqis toward the birth of a new Iraq, in which all its\u2019 citizens will be treated equally, safeguard their dignity and bring them security and stability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRAQ &#8211; Sako \u2013Message to Muslims during Ramadan &nbsp; Below is the letter of Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon, to Muslims on the month of Ramadan. 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