HOLY SEE-IRAQ: BENEDICT XVI TO AL-MALIKI, “STOP VIOLENCE”

"The violence that keeps affecting the different parts of the country nearly every day - it states -, without sparing the Christian communities, that feel a deep need for more security, has been condemned again. The wish was expressed that Iraq may firmly find the way to peace and development through dialogue and cooperation between all the ethnic and religious groups, including the minorities, that, respectful of their respective identities and in a spirit of reconciliation and in the pursuit of the common good, they may join forces and take care of the moral and civil reconstruction of the country". In this connection, they insisted on "the importance of inter-religious dialogue as a way to religious understanding and civil cohabitation". The Prime Minister invited the Holy Father to visit Iraq. Earlier on, Al Maliki had met the Secretary of State, card. Tarcisio Bertone, and the Secretary for the Relations with the States, mgr. Dominique Mamberti.

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