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Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:30 PM
From the Hanc Aquam blog comes this sad report.
The Prioress of the Adrian Dominicans writes:
“As of now, the five elderly sisters who have been holding down the Motherhouse are choosing to remain there because they do not want to lose their Motherhouse to the terrorists. She said most Christians are making plans to evacuate from Iraq and, as a consequence, she does not know what will happen with her Congregation. She said they will follow the Christian people where they go, but where that will be is uncertain.”
Mother Prioress has two requests for those of us in the West: pray and get the word out.
nothing is being reported in the US press. She asks if any of us know people in Washington whom we could contact and tell the story, to please do so. Most importantly, she asks for our prayers.
Human rights experts agree that telling the stories of persecuted peoples is vitally important. It can spur government intervention, but even before help arrives it heartens people in desperate situations to know they are not forgotten, so pass the story along, fellow bloggers.
Will you join me in saying a prayer for the Christians of Iraq when you read this?
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Thank you so much for highlighting this, Rebecca. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some of the sisters from this community and the work they do is so important. I will certainly remember them, and the suffering Christians in Iraq, in my prayers.
Nothing left to do but pray, as the people in Washington know this is going on, were told before the prosecuted their invasion of the country that it would happen, and could not care less about it. Numerous opponents of the Iraq war predicted that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein would be a disaster for Christians in Iraq, who had a better situation there than under most Middle Eastern regimes, and the worsening situation has been followed for years in venues such as http://www.lewrockwell.com. (Go to the site, do a search of “Iraqi Christians” and you will find articles dating back seven years at least.) Before anyone prays “for government intervention” know that it was “government intervention” that brought this about.
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