Christian Churches in Iraq Unite to Rebuild

Assyrian International News Agency ^ | 3/31/17 | Daniele Piccini

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The idea can no longer be shrugged off as a mere pipe dream -- the hope of the thousands of Iraqi Christians who were evicted from their villages three years ago by the criminal incursions of Islamic State (ISIS) -- that they might one day be able to return to their homes on the Plains of Nineveh. With the March 27th signing ceremony in the offices of the archdiocese of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Erbil, an agreement was reached between three Christian churches in Iraq -- the Syriac Catholic Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church and the Chaldean Catholic Church - formally establishing the Nineveh Reconstruction Committee (NRC) tasked with planning and supervising a programme of rebuilding the Christians houses. The Committee is composed of six members chosen from the above three churches (two representatives each) and of three external experts suggested by the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), which will concern itself with advocacy and fundraising.

A professional assessment completed by ACN has calculated that more than 12,000 homes need to be rebuilt -- those that were burnt, destroyed or partially damaged by ISIS -- and that the cost of this operation will be in excess of 200 million Euros. The funds gathered will be allocated to each Church in proportion to the number of damaged houses within their own faith community as calculated by the assessment.

After the signing ceremony, Monsignor Timothaeus Mosa Alshamany, Archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and prior of the Monastery of Saint Matthew, underlined the initiative's double historical importance -- on the one hand the ecumenical spirit that made this possible and on the other the real possibility for thousands of Christians to return to their ancestral roots and to a life in dignity.

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Meanwhile, Christian churches in Germany unite to turn into mosques.

The best Chrstians right now seem to be in middle eastern countries. They will let the barbarians cut off their heads rather than submit to Islam. That takes a huge amount of faith and courage that very few in the west would have any more.