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noteworthy Syriac Catholic Church reestablishes diocese in northern Iraq The Syriac Catholic Church has reestablished a diocese for the Kurdistan region of Iraq in an effort to support the faithful in the region and encourage them to remain in their homeland. Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan celebrated the new diocese at a Mass at Queen of Peace Syriac Catholic Church in Irbil, Iraq, on August 24. Archbishop Nathaniel Nizar Semaan will head the new Diocese of Hadiab-Irbil and all Kurdistan. Previously, the area was under the Mosul archdiocese’s jurisdiction. Photo Caption: Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church, and Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan in Bkerke, Lebanon (CNS) Chaldean Man Murdered in Detroit Lewis Putrus, 77, was shot and killed Saturday, September 21. Putrus was leaving his brother’s store, D&D, in Detroit at around 11:00 p.m. when he was approached by a suspect demanding money. Reports cite a second suspect. A $10,000 reward is being offered by the Midwest Independent Retailers Foundation for any information leading to an arrest. Since 1970, more than 100 Chaldeans have been killed in their place of work. Longtime California State Legislator, Wadie Deddeh, dies at 98 Wadie Deddeh passed away Tuesday, August 27 in Poway, California, just nine days before his 99th birthday. With 16 years in the Assembly and 11 in the Senate, Deddeh built a strong reputation for his bipartisan leadership. Born in Baghdad in 1920, Deddeh came to the United States in 1947. Recognized by Crain’s John Haji, 32, has been selected as one of Crain’s Business’ 40 Under 40. The founder of The Gentleman’s Box, Haji takes serious pride in providing the best products possible to his customers. Pilgrimage with Fr. Jeff Day Fr. Jeff Day is leading a pilgrimage to the Holy Land! This 9 day pilgrimage is open to all. From the Sea of Galilee and Nazareth to The Old City and Garden of Gethsemane, the pilgrimage will take you to key locations within the Holy Land. For more information or to reserve your spot, contact Corporate Travel Service, Inc. at (866) 468-1420. 12 CHALDEAN NEWS OCTOBER 2019
chaldean DIGEST What others are saying about Chaldeans The Plains of Nineveh: The Purging of Christians Continues FSSPX.NEWS BY FSSPX.NEWS The Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church has once again publicly intervened to denounce the living conditions of Christians in the Nineveh plains. These are the costs of the Shiite Muslims’ stranglehold and the appearance of Protestant sects in the region. US Sends Additional Financial Assistance to Victims in Iraq ALLONGEORGIA BY ALLONGEORGIA Additional funding has been appropriated for victims in northern Iraq. The administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Mark Green, recently announced that the new financial assistance is part of the effort by the U.S. Government, announced by Vice President Mike Pence, to support ethnic and religious minorities displaced by the genocide perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). USAID awarded this funding to Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and The Solidarity Fund Poland. USAID made an award of $6.8 million to CRS, which is working in partnership with the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil, to assist vulnerable families with their immediate household needs and to ease their return home when possible. A separate award under USAID’s Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Poland will provide $528,500 to a multi-donor project to deliver high-quality health care to communities affected by the persecution of ISIS. Beneficiaries will include displaced people who are living in camps and non-camp locations in Northern Iraq, as well as disadvantaged members of host com ASIANEWS BY ASIANEWS Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako holds the primate office of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq. His concerns are at odds with those of the rich Church of Germany, which, in its next “synodal path,” is preparing to legitimize a deadly moral relativism, aligned with triumphant secularism in the West. For the Chaldean primate, Mosul (AsiaNews) – The new message by “caliph” Abou Bakr al- Baghdadi, posted yesterday online by the Islamic State (IS) has not yet had “a vast echo” in the territories the group once controlled, this according to Fr Paul Thabit Mekko. The Chaldean priest in Karamles, Nineveh Plain (northern Iraq), spoke to AsiaNews about the 30-minute audio in which the Jihadi leader calls on his most loyal supporters to “redouble efforts: preaching, media, military, security.” For now, this has not yet caused any alarm among the people of Mosul and the Plain, still engaged in the slow and painstaking work of reconstruction. the urgency is of an order much higher: it is a question of saving the presence of Christianity in the East, especially in the plains of Nineveh. On September 12, 2019, Archbishop Sako signed an opinion piece on “decisionmakers and Iraqi citizens” on Saint-Adday, the official site of the Patriarchate. See page ___ for opinion piece. An Iraqi Christian prays during a Mass on Christmas at an Orthodox church in the town of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, Iraq, in 2016. Chaldean priest: Mosul focused on work and reconstruction, not al-Baghdadi’s messages © KHALID AL MOUSILY/REUTERS After months of silence, al- Baghdadi’s last message was in late April, the self-styled caliph urges his loyalists to fight on despite the group’s latest military defeats. Titled “Do deeds!” the audio is a real call to arms, urging fighters not to give up, to help those who are in prison and their families in shelters for displaced persons (IDP). ‘How Can I Close the House of God?’ CHURCHMILLITANT.COM BY WILLIAM MAHONEY, PH. D Three subdeacons accompanied Fr. Ragheed Aziz Ganni, a Chaldean Catholic priest ministering to the faithful in Mosul, Iraq, to the Sunday evening Mass at Holy Spirit Chaldean Church in Mosul for Trinity Sunday in 2007. The subdeacons, Basman Yousef Daud (Fr. Ganni’s cousin), Wahid Hanna Isho and Gassan Isam Bidawed, went with Fr. Ganni since he had been receiving death threats from some demanding he close down the church. After the Mass, Fr. Ganni, the three subdeacons and Isho’s wife were confronted by four Islamists wearing masked black suits and armed with Kalashnikov rifles. One of the armed men yelled at Fr. Ganni, asking why the priest did not heed the warnings to shut down the church. Father Ganni then said the last words he would utter this side of the veil: “How can I close the house of God?” Refugee who died after being deported to Iraq laid to rest in Michigan THE DETROIT NEWS BY SARAH RAHAL Southfield — As Jimmy Aldaoud, a Detroit refugee found dead in Iraq after his deportation, was laid to rest Friday back in Michigan, family members gathered and dressed in black had no words to describe their grief. “I can’t fathom what has happened,” Rita Aldaoud, sister of the refugee, told The Detroit News earlier this week. “Imagine they just picked you up and threw you into a country you’ve never been and in the most dangerous part.” His three sisters, Nagham Shamoon, Mary Bolis and Rita Aldaoud, gazed at his light brown wooden casket as it was lowered Friday into a plot at Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery, where he was buried beside his mother and beneath his father. The siblings were quiet during a Mass at Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church and at his burial, contemplating how their family found itself in these unforeseen circumstances. OCTOBER 2019 CHALDEAN NEWS 13
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