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Cardinal Fernando Filoni says one of the toughest periods of his life was the war in Iraq.
He recalled that Pope John Paul II spoke often of the conflict and about the possibility of solving it through dialogue.Pope St John Paul II repeatedly called for peace. When the winds of war were making themselves felt on the horizon, he addressed the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See and said"No to war! War is not always inevitable. It is always a defeat for humanity.
But based on the assumption that Saddam Hussein had"weapons of mass destruction", the US President ordered air strikes over Baghdad, marking the beginning of a military operation"to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger." US forces toppled Hussen's regime in a matter of weeks and the search for evidence of Iraq's so-called"weapons of mass destruction intensified. The weapons were nowhere to be found.
Islamic State also exploited sectarian tensions following the invasion to entrench itself in both Iraq and Syria, causing the US to send troops back to Iraq three years after first withdrawing from the country. An apostolic nuncio, he explained, is not just like an ambassador whose mandate is to foster bilateral relations or business interests: “We are there for solidarity, to assure peace, to defend rights, to be close to Christians, to Catholics, to dialogue [with the other parties]". As Church, he continued, we believe that “we must show ourselves as a part of the people there. We are inserted in the reality.
The Cardinal explained that in Iraq at the start of the millennium, most Christians were Chaldeans, and then there were the Orthodox. He said the Latin-rite Church was very small, and there were also other minorities, all of whom were respected.
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