Patriarch laments plight of Syriac Catholics
October 14, 2014
In an interview with Vatican Radio, the head of the Syriac Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See, lamented the plight of Syriac Catholics in Iraq and Syria.
“Over 70,000 Syriac Catholics have been uprooted,” said Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan. “And that means over two-thirds, if not three-quarters of our numbers in all Iraq-- they have been displaced and they have nowhere to go.”
“It’s a disastrous situation for families and children, and also for our parishes,” he added. “We don’t know what to do with our people, especially the young … leaving them in that kind of limbo-- no hope for the future.”
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