"La situazione sta peggiorando. Gridate con noi che i diritti umani sono calpestati da persone che parlano in nome di Dio ma che non sanno nulla di Lui che è Amore, mentre loro agiscono spinti dal rancore e dall'odio.
Gridate: Oh! Signore, abbi misericordia dell'Uomo."

Mons. Shleimun Warduni
Baghdad, 19 luglio 2014

18 ottobre 2009

First visit of the new Syriac Catholic Patriarch to Iraq

By Baghdadhope
Source: Zowaa.org

It started on last Thursday the first visit of the new Patriarch of the Syria Catholic church in Iraq. His Beatitude Mar Ignatius Joseph Younan III arrived in Baghdad accompanied by Msgr. Rabula Antoine Beylouni, Archbishop Emeritus of Alep of the Syriacs and Titular Archbishop of Mardin of the Syriacs and by Msgr. Jules Mikhail Al-Jamil, Titular Archbishop of Takrit of the Syriacs, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of the Syriac Catholic Patriarchate (Lebanon) and Procurator of the Syriac Catholic Church to the Holy See. The Patriarch was welcomed in Baghdad by Msgr. Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka, archbishop of Baghdad and Msgr. George Alqas Musa Archbishop of Mosul of the Syriacs. The same afternoon of the arrival of the delegation a solemn ceremony was held in the church of Our Lady of Deliverance in Baghdad. It was followed the following day by a celebration in the church of Mar Benham and by a lunch attended by several Christian politicians, by Mar Addai II, Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East and by Msgr. Jean Benjamin Sleiman, Latin bishop of Baghdad. The visit of His Beatitude Mar Ignatius III Joseph Younan in Iraq will continue in the coming days.
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