A suffering that is also shared by the Chaldeans of the diaspora, who "most of the times shed no blood, but when they arrive they are already deprived of their personalities and live with these scars all the time. Maybe what keeps them alive is their ethnic and religious identity". "In Iraq, even if they say there is religious freedom, there’s the risk that during Mass the Church may be blown up stated the Procurator -. In Europe, if on a Sunday a Chaldean devotee is at Mass, he does now know if he will be there again next Sunday, because there are not enough priests because of the diaspora and they cannot do everything. And the local hierarchies he denounced are not always willing or prepared to help us, even if that is a serious obligation for them, as our Codex states, while theirs says nothing about this". "We draw strength from inside, from faith, from pride, from our being Iraqis concluded mgr. Najim , otherwise it would seem to me that father Ragheed, mgr. Raho, and all the others would have died in vain, and I can’t think that because those who lose their life for Christ will find it again. And so we find father Ragheed, mgr. Raho and all the Christian martyrs again in the life of the Churches of Iraq, which are open and crowded despite what is happening". For the full text of mgr. Najim’s speech, visit baghdadhope’s website.
