Bishop urges Christians to leave Iraq [CWN]

[CWN_News]

A Syrian Orthodox bishop based in London is urging Iraqi Christians to abandon their native land. "I say clearly and now-- the Christian people should leave their beloved land of our …

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[ProVobis]

“You know, everybody hates the Christian,” he said in additional remarks to BBC. “Yes, during Saddam Hussein, we were living in peace-- nobody attacked us. We had human rights, we had protection from the government but now nobody protects us.”

“Since 2003, there has been no protection for Christians,” he added. “We’ve lost many people and they’ve bombed our homes, our churches, monasteries.”

One of Saddam’s higherups, Aziz, was a Catholic, and he supposedly had much influence in the country.

 

[Barbkw]

catholicism.about.com/od/thechurchintheworld/f/popes_on_iraq.htm

"John Paul II on the War in Iraq

In 1991, Pope John Paul II opposed the Gulf War and publicly appealed to U.S. President George H.W. Bush not to wage it. In 2003, he once again opposed a war in Iraq and appealed to U.S. President George W. Bush to refrain from going to war.

In an Address to the Diplomatic Corps at the Vatican on January 13, 2003, the Pope declared that “War is never just another means that one can choose to employ for settling differences between nations” and reiterated that “war cannot be decided upon . . . except as the very last option and in accordance with very strict conditions.”"