The Tablet December 18, 2020
Volunteers in Mosul, Iraq, clean the Syriac Catholic Church of St. Thomas Oct. 28, 2020. News reports said the effort “seeks to sweep away the horrors” of three years of rule by Islamic State militants and welcome back members of minority faiths who fled IS. (Photo: Abdullah Rashid/Reuters via CNS)
By Inés San Martín
ROSARIO, Argentina (Crux) According to Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, who heads the Vatican’s office for Eastern Churches, there’s “great concern” on the part of the Catholic Church regarding the return of Christians to Iraq.
“It will be very difficult for Christians who’ve fled to return if the conditions of safety and access to an education are not guaranteed,” Cardinal Sandri said Dec. 17.
Dec 18, 2020 rome bureau chief
Volunteers in Mosul, Iraq, clean the Syriac Catholic Church of St. Thomas Oct. 28, 2020. News reports said the effort seeks to sweep away the horrors of three years of rule by Islamic State militants and welcome back members of minority faiths who fled IS. (Credit: Abdullah Rashid/Reuters via CNS.)
According to Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, who heads the Vatican’s office for Eastern Churches, there’s “great concern” on the part of the Catholic Church regarding the return of Christians to Iraq.
ROSARIO, Argentina According to Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, who heads the Vatican’s office for Eastern Churches, there’s “great concern” on the part of the Catholic Church regarding the return of Christians to Iraq.