The families fled from western Iraq to Baghdad in 2014, amid the advance of the Islamic State; they now face eviction to make way for a shopping center.
“Iraqi Christians, and perhaps also Christians of other nations, will soon disappear if there is no change in thinking and national system,” warned Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church since 2013.
“The scenario is frightening,” Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (CNEWA profile), said after protestors stormed the parliament in Baghdad.
“Since the fall of the previous regime [of Saddam Hussein], in April 2003, a normal political life has not yet seen the light in Iraq,” said Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako became Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, said as he discussed “Problems of Iraqi Christians and Future Opportunities”.
Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church (CNEWA profile), called for a democratic Iraq in all citizens are truly equal, whatever their “religious affiliation, ethnicity or gender” may be.