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Joseph
T. Kassab
Vatican
May 31, 2017
Last week, my wife and myself traveled to the holy city of the Vatican-Italy. The
purpose was to meet, greet , and receive blessings from the Holy Father Pope
Francis.
At
this very close audience, we offered his Holiness some basic articles from our
Chaldean culture, heritage, and a portrait for our beloved village Telkaipa
much-loved St. George, a city which is brutally taken and destroyed
for two years by vicious ISIS. These offered pieces are shared
by the Iraqi Christians Advocacy and Empowerment Institute (ICAE) and the
Troy-Michigan based 56 years of dedicated services provider; the
United Community Family Services also knows as the Chaldean American Ladies of
Charity (UCFS/CALC) .
Since
the world was very much inspired by the Holy Father meeting with President
Trump on persecuted Christians, I was pleased to personally give his Holiness a
four pages letter addressed to him describing the ordeal, challenges, and the
fierce genocide which Christians are nowadays facing in Iraq. In addition,
I listed several of the durable solutions to protect and to assist the
impacted people in order to survive and to prosper in their own ancestral land,
Iraq, the land of Mesopotamia.
I
also, implored the Holy Father to pray and to help save the Christians in Iraq
from extinction which in reply he humbly knotted his head. As a result, the next
day a meeting was arranged for me with the officials of the Pontifical Migrants
and Refugee Section, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Humanitarian Development.
It is one of the official congregations of the Holy See, through which the Pope
conducts the regular administration of the universal Church. Based on my
longtime expertise and work on rescuing the persecuted and the oppressed, I had
very extensive and detailed conversation with the officials on how the
Diaspora civic-humanitarian organizations like ICAE Institute and
the United Community Family Services (UCFS/CALC) can collectively assist
in providing a holistic and strategic relief approaches to address this tenuous
humanitarian matter.
To
better serve my people, I'm looking forward to work closely with the Vatican
and President Trump Administration.
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