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IRAQ Niniveh: reconstruction increases Christian unity and communion, says nuncio to Iraq - by Alberto Ortega Martín

mons alberto ortega martinIn a letter to Patriarch Sako, Mgr Ortega Martín says that cooperation between Churches is a "strong show of communion” in the face of persecution and violence. The prelate notes that it is everyone's responsibility to favour the return of refugees to their homes. He praises refugees who "after losing everything, held on to their faith." Christ "is your strength", he tells them.
Baghdad (AsiaNews) – Mgr Alberto Ortega Martín, apostolic nuncio to Jordan and Iraq, wrote a letter to the Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako. In it, he says that cooperation among Churches, Chaldeans, Syro-Catholics and Syriac-Orthodox is a show of greater unity and constitutes a “strong testimony of communion”.

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