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| “I do not demand to specify a region for the Christians” | |
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| ALAN | Feb 20 13, 4:02 Post #1 |
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![]() “I do not demand to specify a region for the Christians and to live isolated from others,” the Patriarch Luis Sako has stated, describing such a demand as being “unusual” to the nature of Christianity. After his appointment as the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon, Luis Sako stated during an interview with Kirkuk Now “The Christians are contributing to the political decisions; they have their representative in the parliament, a minister in the government and general directors in the different departments and offices, and they cooperate with all the political powers to reach their goals. The Christians are an important part of Iraq.” “The Christians can live anywhere, and we live together with our Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen brothers. There is not any reason for us to live isolated in a specific region,” he added. Regarding his plans to prevent further departures of the Christians from Iraq, he said “I have plans to gather more of the Christians and unite them, and prevent their leaving to the outside of Iraq, and make those living abroad want to come back and guarantee them a peaceful and prosperous life.” Kirkuk Now |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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