IRAQ - Arab Media: a "Government Committee" Will Work on Suggestions that Emerged During Pope Francis' Visit

Agenzia Fides ^ | 3/30/21

[marshmallow]

Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Iraqi government has appointed an inter-ministerial committee to work on the suggestions and proposals that emerged during Pope Francis' recent visit to Iraq. This is reported by the Arab newspaper Al Araby Al Jadeed, citing generically and anonymously "high-level sources" of the Iraqi government.

The "recommendations" contained in the dossier at the center of the work of the Government Committee - reports the source cited, also referring to the conversations of Pope Francis with Iraqi President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi during the papal visit - aim to suggest solutions to problems of security, economic sustainability and post-war reconstruction that weigh in particular on the condition of Christian communities and on other social components, especially in the governorates of Nineveh and Baghdad.

The government source cited by the UK-based newspaper refers in particular to the problems relating to security and attributed to the persistence of militias organized on a sectarian basis still operating in the Nineveh Governorate, an area of historical roots of the indigenous Christian communities. The dossier that the government Committee is studying includes the question of real estate illegally seized in recent years from Christian families forced by conflict and violence to move to other areas of the country or to emigrate abroad.

At the beginning of 2021, as reported by Agenzia Fides (see Fides, 4/1/2021), the Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr (head of the Sadist political group that enjoys strong representation in the Baghdad Parliament) had ordered the creation of an ad hoc Committee, in charge of collecting and verifying information and complaints regarding cases of illegal expropriation of real estate suffered in recent years by Christian owners in different regions of the country. The decision was made known in a statement indicating the names of Muqtada.............

[BenLurkin]

They are going to accept Christ as their Lord and savior?

[sauropod]

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