Rome, Italy, Nov 28, 2008 / 14:12 pm
Archbishop Louis Sako said this week, “Iraq without Christians is a poorer country. It would be disastrous for peaceful coexistence and for tolerance not only in Iraq but in all of the Middle East.”
According to the SIR news agency, the archbishop made his comments during the national gathering of diocesan delegates for ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue in Italy. He lamented the dramatic situation of Christians in Iraq, “half of whom are refugees in other countries to escape the violence, rapes, murders and kidnappings” they have been subject to by Muslim extremists.