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Pope pleads for help for Iraqi Christians
Monday, 01 March 2010 16:05
CWNews.com - At his Angelus audience on Sunday, February 28, Pope Benedict XVI repeated his plea for the safety of Christians in Iraq. The Pope also offers his prayerful condolences to Chilean earthquake victims and encouraged international donors to help the survivors.
"With great sadness did I learn the tragic news of the killing of a number of Christians in the city of Mosul, and with great concern have I followed other episodes of violence committed against defenseless people of various religious confessions in the martyred land of Iraq," the Pope said. He issued an appeal to Iraqi government leaders to "make every effort to restore security to the population, in particular to the most vulnerable religious minorities," and asked other world leaders to help Iraq establish "a future of reconciliation and peace."
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- Help for Iraqi Christians and Chilean Earthquake Victims (VIS)
- Pope Prays for Iraq and Chile at Angelus (Vatican Radio)
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| "And when his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. And for three days he could not see." (Acts 9:9) By no means would he [Saul] have been able to see well again unless he had first been fully blinded. Also, when he had rejected his own wisdom, which was confusing him, he could commit himself totally to faith. Since he had not believed that the Lord had conquered death by rising on the third day, he was now taught by his own experience of the replacement of three days of darkness by the return of the light. Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles from the Venerable Bede |