Posted on 06/24/2014 5:56:21 AM PDT by marshmallow
Catholic bishops from Iraq are meeting this week to come up with a “rescue plan” amid growing fears that the ISIS Islamist attacks have put Christianity in danger of extinction from the country.
The meeting of the Chaldean hierarchy, which starts today, comes after the military success of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) prompted yet another wave of displacement within a country which has already seen a dramatic decline in the Christian population over the past decade.
Speaking to Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need, Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Saad Sirop of Baghdad said that up to 75 percent of Christians had left the capital over the past few years.
He said that ISIS attacks elsewhere in the country – and the threat to Baghdad itself – meant yet more Christians were leaving.
The bishop added that in the capital Mass attendance on Sunday was “much lower” than normal.
Speaking after arriving in Erbil, in Kurdish northern Iraq, ahead of the start of the meeting, Bishop Sirop said: “What we need is a rescue plan and this is what we will be discussing at our next synod, which we hold every year.”
He added: “Christians and others in Baghdad are leaving because they are afraid of what is going to happen. So many have left Iraq already. It is a very difficult moment for the Church in Baghdad.”
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Ya think?
And the Congress should force the U.S. Government to man up as well.
Buy weapons and range training...
We should make this a Judeo- Christian nation again. All Muslims get out. All Christian and Jews come here from the Middle East.
AMEN!
Praying for these Catholics and Christians in Iraq.
Day late and a dollar short,as usual.Plans need to be made BEFORE the crisis is upon you.
Amen. If the west were smart, they would reinstitute the Templars or Hospitilars as a Christian military force.
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