The
following excerpts are from AINA.org:
SAN
DIEGO -- In a landmark decision, Pope Francis has ruled that a priest
who is part of the San Diego Iraqi Christian community will not have
to return to Iraq.
The
Pope this week overturned a decree that would have sent Father Noel
Gorgis of the St. Peters Chaldean Church in El Cajon back to Iraq.
In
October of last year, the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church
ordered 10 priests, including Gorgis, to return to Iraq or leave the
church for good. The church patriarch said the group never had their
moves to the U.S. approved.
Most
of them had fled Iraq around the time of the Gulf War, and today ISIS
militants are threatening Iraq's Christians with death if they don't
convert to Islam.
...spoke
with Father Noel Gorgis in October about his fears of returning home.
"To
tell me go back to Iraq, it really is to make to tell me go and have
suicide," Gorgis said at the time.
The
Chaldean Church of San Diego appealed to Pope Francis shortly after
the decree to move was issued.
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Pope Rules Chaldean Priest Can Stay in San Diego
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