Patriarch Chaldean of Baghdad (Iraq), Cardinal Louis Raphäel Sako, made a pressing called to recover common sense, and reject the hate and war discourse before the conflict between Israel and Iran, in which the United States intervened and that has at the moment a fragile high fire.
After the bombings of the last days between Israel and Iran, the patriarch commented that “what happened is sad. We have all lived difficult moments of concern and fear. The world has lost its international order.”
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“Now,” the Archbishop said, “we must recover common sense and reject the discourse of hatred, violence and war.”
Cardinal Iraqi also said that “it is sin to destroy life and what has been built. Peace is a gift. We must welcome and protect it with effort, making peace protection a real commitment to life.”
As reported CNN in Spanishciting reported sources from the United States, the attacks of the American country against nuclear facilities would not have destroyed its central components; While Trump has expressed his anger against Israel and Iran, who accuse each other of having raped the truce.
The American president also said he does not seek to change the regime of Iran because he does not want to witness the “chaos.”
In an interview with the Vatican Agency FidesPatriarch Cerseo encouraged “respecting the sovereignty of countries and solving problems through sincere and brave dialogue”, since “changing a regime is the responsibility of citizens. Imposing another regime could worsen the situation. The change must arise from within, if citizens consider it necessary.”
The drama of Christians in Iraq
The archbishop also indicated that “after 22 years since the fall of the regime in Iraq, we still do not have a true state of citizenship, justice, security or stability. Corruption and sectarianism persist.”
Cardinal Sako then explained that “Christians have suffered a lot, just like all Iraqi, because of ISIS. This suffering has pushed us to the exodus and emigration.”
“Until now,” we called, “we are marginalized, our peoples are occupied by militias and the quota of seats in political institutions reserved for Christians is being usurped.”
For all this, the Patriarch concluded, “it does not seem to get a better future for Christians. But despite what we have suffered, we feel that we have a vocation in this earth, with our faith. Therefore, we can maintain confidence and expect a better future.”
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.