Pope appeals to political, religious leaders to help Iraq reconstruction

Well, Well, Well The Church speaks out. Great! The mega-billionaire Catholic Church should lead the way!

Chulanowa

No kidding
Prayer is well and good, solidarity is nice... But they don't rebuild homes. They don't fill bellies. they don't stop the bleeding. Only hands can do those things.

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday appealed to political and religious leaders worldwide to help Iraq in its reconstruction, and he expressed solidarity with the Christian community and all victims of the violence in the conflict-ridden country.

In his Sunday prayer in St. Peter's Square, Benedict also sent his "cordial greetings" to Muslims, who are celebrating the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, and wished them "serenity and peace."
The pope expressed worry for the "news coming out of Iraq on the very grave situation of insecurity and brutal violence to which many innocent people are subjected only because (they are) Shiites, Sunnis or Christians."

Benedict appealed to "the religious leaders, the political leaders, both local and of the world, to support those people on the path to reconstructing their homeland, in the search of a shared balance, in mutual respect, in the awareness that the plurality of its components is an integral part of its wealth."

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