Source: SIR
Translated by Baghdadhope
"A herald of peace who has never ceased to cry out against the war. He did everything possible to stop conflicts in the world but especially I remember his commitment to stop wars in Iraq, the one with Iran, then the first Gulf war and finally the last one." John Paul II’s commitment to peace, three years after his death, has not been not forgotten in Iraq that today pays that, as Mgr. Shlemon Warduni auxiliary bishop of Baghdad, recalls to SIR "nobody wanted to listen to Pope’s words who said that war only causes evil and solve nothing. And to understand what he meant it is sufficient to take a walk today in the streets of Kirkuk, Baghdad, Mosul. There is only destruction."
"I remember when he sent in Iraq his representative, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, in an extreme attempt to stop the war. All the Iraqis still remember all the efforts of this good-hearted Pope to whom they ask protection and intercession for having peace".
With regard to the kidnapping and the death of Mgr. Rahho, archbishop of Mosul, Mgr. Warduni reaffirms that "there are no news about the investigations, no one says anything, while the marches of Christians in the province of Mosul to demand justice continue. Who ensures justice today in Iraq? Maybe the coalition troops or maybe the government? Nobody does nothing for us".