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06/07/2007 13:18
by Louis Sako, Archbishop of Kirkuk
Kirkuk (AsiaNews) - Christians will not be saved by closing them up in a ghetto. Quite the contrary. The plan for an autonomous Assyrian zone in Iraq, advanced by politicized circles in the country and abroad, only risks worsening the situation. Furthermore, there is considerable resistance to the so-called “Nineveh Plains project,” among authoritative figures in the Vatican. On the eve of the meeting between the Pope and U.S. President George W. Bush, a prominent figure in the Chaldean Church, the Archbishop of Kirkuk, Monsignor Louis Sako, explains in the following article the roots of the Assyrian utopia, as well as the risks that it entails, and sets out the way to deal, in a united fashion, with the problem of Christian persecution.
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