{"id":33089,"date":"2019-02-12T11:32:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T11:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=33089"},"modified":"2019-02-12T11:32:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T11:32:31","slug":"seed-for-a-possible-papal-visit-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2019\/02\/12\/seed-for-a-possible-papal-visit-to-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"SEED FOR A POSSIBLE PAPAL VISIT TO IRAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>SEED FOR A POSSIBLE PAPAL VISIT TO IRAQ<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Patriarch of Iraq\u2019s Chaldean Catholic Church, Mar Louis Rapha\u00ebl ISakohas said that a pastoral visit to Iraq by Pope Francis would be an encouragement for what\u2019s left of the Christian community as well as a call for every Iraqi citizen to \u201copen up, to build trust and peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This came after Pope Francis Feb. 3-5 Apostolic Visit to the United Arab Emirates which the Patriarch described as a \u201cseed for a possible papal visit to Iraq.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI think a papal visit to Iraq can be organized because the situation has improved and both Christians and Muslims are open,\u201d Sako told\u00a0<em>Crux<\/em> recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAbove all, we need a visit from the Holy Father,\u201d Sako said Friday. \u201cWe have suffered a lot, as have the Christians in Syria.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Over the past two decades, the Christian population of Iraq is believed to have gone from more than one million to fewer than 150,000, most of whom are living in the Nineveh Plains, which overlaps the border between Iraq and Kurdish-held territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mentioned in the Bible, the Nineveh plains are a conglomerate of small villages, many of them historically Christian: Teleskof, Batnaya, Bartella, Karamles, Qaraqosh, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With the help of Aid to the Church in Need and other charities, thousands of Christian families have been able to return after the region was liberated last October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Though rebuilding the region and the Christian presence in cities such as Mosul and Baghdad cannot wait for a papal visit, the attention it would bring would nevertheless help, Sako believes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEED FOR A POSSIBLE PAPAL VISIT TO IRAQ &nbsp; The Patriarch of Iraq\u2019s Chaldean Catholic Church, Mar Louis Rapha\u00ebl ISakohas said that a pastoral visit to Iraq by Pope Francis would be an encouragement for what\u2019s left of the Christian community as well as a call for every Iraqi citizen to \u201copen up, to build&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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