Refugee Resettlement Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Archbishop of Kirkuk is calling on Iraqi Christians to return home. The Catholic News Agency reports: Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk said in an interview with the L’Osservatore Romano this week that the situation in Iraq “is quite good and this means refugees could return to their homes. There are hundreds of empty and abandoned [...]
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... for Christian minorities whose circumstances range from difficult to desperate: Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk, representing Iraq’s largest Christian minority, the Chaldean Catholics; Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart of Aleppo (Syria), representing Greek Melkites (like the Chaldeans, an Eastern-rite branch of Roman Catholicism); and Archbishop Paul Hinder, apostolic vicar for the...
Persecution Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... monasteries and the homes of relatives in nearby Christian villages and towns.” What Archbishop Louis Sako called the “campaign of killings and deportations” comes along with the all-too-regular “abduction attempts for paid ransom” directed at Christians. In just two weeks in October, at least 14 Christians were killed in Mosul as part of a “major displacement” orchestrated by al...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
In an attempt to improve relations with the Islamic world, the opened a three-day Catholic-Muslim seminar on Tuesday. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, who is presiding over the meeting, said it marked “a new chapter” in Vatican-Muslim relations. Two years ago, offended some Muslims when he quoted a medieval text that called some...
Israel Commentary (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
Iraqis have their religions listed on government-issued ID cards. ‘We are worried about the campaign of killings and deportations against the Christian citizens in Mosul,” Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako said in a statement. “Such violations are damaging the national unity,” Sako said. “The Christians want only to live in peace and harmony and to work together with all Iraqis for...
Gorillas Guides (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
... between the Kurdish government, responsible for order in Mosul, and the central government. Louis Sako, archbishop of Kirkuk, wanted to share with the readers of AsiaNews his concerns about these events. What is happening in Mosul? How can this constant carnage be defined? In one week, there have been 12 deaths; 1,000 families have left their homes for villages in the plane of Nineveh;...
