“France, turn your gaze to Iraq: people are dying before your eyes”
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At a time when the world has its eyes riveted on Brazil, Assyrian-Chaldean Christians in Iraq, the indigenous people of this country suffer martyrdom and risk permanent loss in general indifference. Two actions are organized in Paris on July 8 and Sarcelles. These actions will be followed by many more!
For the first time since 1600 years, no Mass is no longer celebrated on Sunday in Mosul where there are no more Christian. The country’s second city, near Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire, fell to jihadists of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (EIIL).
The terrorists threaten to besiege EIIL other cities and villages predominantly Christian. The Assyro-Chaldeans in France and around the world fear extermination of Christians in Iraq. It is simply an ethnic cleansing.
“The eradication of religious minorities is unfortunately not collateral damage mad murderers strategy: it is their stated goal. (…) “, Alerted the Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Luis Sako.
Indeed, the Assyro-Chaldeans in Iraq, who aspire only to live freely and in perfect harmony with their brothers Kurds, Sunni and Shiite, have continued to be victims of atrocities and abuses since U.S. invasion of 2003. Today, there is not more than 400,000 Christians in Iraq against more than a million and a half before the first Gulf War in 1991. regions and cities, including Baghdad, have been widely emptied of their Christian inhabitants.
The international community and particularly France, historical protector of Eastern Christians can not remain insensitive and indifferent to the plight of Christians face in this country. The Christianization and the end of multiculturalism in the Middle East would have serious consequences on the global equilibrium and endanger social peace in the Middle East.
Therefore, the community and the Assyrian-Chaldean church France launched a Great Day of Mobilisation and Action for Christians in Iraq Tuesday, July 8, 2014.
The Assyro-Chaldeans of France will gather to 14h before the National Assembly for a symbolic action to educate the French public and government about the plight of Christians in Iraq.
he rally will be followed to 19h, a silent march in Sarcelles. The procession will leave the sub-prefecture of Sarcelles and leads to the Place des Martyrs Assyrian-Chaldeans and then to St. Thomas Church where a funeral ceremony will be held in honor of all civilians killed in Iraq since 2003.
With the support of his church and its associations, the Assyrian-Chaldean community calls all enamored of secularism, democracy and freedom to join as part of this day of action unprecedented. This day, which is part of a global movement launched in early July 2014 by the Assyro-Chaldeans worldwide.
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