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Chaldean Patriarch tells Pontiff: ‘we’re counting on you’
May 21, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako reports that in a meeting with the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, he told the Pontiff: “We’re counting on you.”
The Iraqi prelate said that “Christians are under threat” in his country, and peaceful relations between Catholicism and Islam are crucial. He said: “Pope Francis launched initiatives that have transformed relations—even within the Muslim world itself.”
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