ASIA/IRAQ - Baghdad, Muslims and Christians oppose the demolition of a church

Wednesday, 2 January 2019 middle east oriental churches islam dialogue

ankawa.com

IRAQ

2024-08-06
Patriarch Sako on the expulsion of Christians from the Nineveh Plain ten years ago: "The collective tragedy is still ingrained in people's minds"

2024-07-20
The Chaldean bishops: “Two peoples, two States: the solution for peace in the Holy Land”

2024-06-13
Cardinal Sako returns to Baghdad: "We are not a Church of strangers"

2024-06-12
Iraqi government recognizes Chaldean Patriarch Sako as responsible for the properties of the Chaldean Church

2024-06-10
Ten years after the ISIS occupation: less than 50 Christian families have returned to Mosul

2024-03-25
Chaldean Patriarch Sako: Holy Week is "the time we need"

Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Dozens of inhabitants of Baghdad, Christians and Muslims, have given rise to public mobilizations to stop the realization of a project of urban restructuring that would also imply the demolition of the Chaldean church dedicated to the Divine Wisdom, in the district of Adhamiya. In the signs and banners displayed during the demonstrations, also documented by the news services of al Sharqiya TV (satellite channel of the media entrepreneur Saad al Bazzaz, a native of Mosul), the participants in the demonstrations call into question political forces and national and local institutions, giving them the responsibility of supporting an urban project in the name of interests and commercial calculations that jeopardizes a church recognized by all as a symbol-place of the combated but necessary coexistence between different religious components of the Iraqi population (see http://www.ankawa.org/vshare/ view/11336/hikma/).
The church of the Divine Wisdom was built in 1929 by British architect James Mollison Wilson during the British Mandate on Mesopotamia, and is located on the border of two inhabited urban areas respectively by Shiites and Sunnis. (GV) (Agenzia Fides, 2/1/2019)