Invitations to dialogue between religions, actual religious freedom and respect of minorities: the echoes of Benedict XVI’s visit reached as far as Iraq, where for a long time the Christian communities have been victims of violence and assaults. "We are following the Pope in this journey with our prayers states the auxiliary bishop of Baghdad, mgr. Shlemon Warduni, to SIR We are impressed at the courage of his gestures and his testimony. Dialogue needs people like Benedict XVI, whose warnings can help smooth down the climate around the Christian minorities, and not just in Iraq. We need gestures and words of peace. Those we saw in Ankara yesterday are going the right way: tolerance, respect, goodness and justice. They do help our threatened communities. Before these signs of the Pope’s, the true Muslim believers cannot but be happy and respond favourably. Together, Christians and Muslims can help build a fairer world, a world of peace, because only God can do the good of the world".
