CWN - The heads of the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Maronite Catholic Church, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, the Syriac Catholic Church, and the Syriac Orthodox Church met in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on August 20 and asked the international community to protect Iraq’s persecuted Christians.
The Assyrian International News Agency has now published the full text of the patriarchs’ remarks.
The head of the Syriac Catholic Church, Patriarch Ignace Joseph III (Ephrem) Younan, said that the jihadist group Islamic State...
...developed and was nurtured in communities and with support from countries known in the region that are founded on Wahabism in the Islamic religion, and they are trying to evade and not accept their responsibility because they say that al-Qaeda is their enemy …
We would like to remind the west, especially the US, Britain, and France, that these Takfiri groups did not become strong if it were not for their-- at best-- hidden support. Today they are retreating and trying to hide the issue under the rug.
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