Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin Issues Statement on Church Bombings in Iraq
08.12.2004
The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin is greatly troubled to learn from the Armenian Diocese of Damascus, that Armenian and Chaldean churches were attacked and bombed yesterday in Mosul, Iraq.
His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, condemns these terrorist attacks on the churches in Iraq and their endangerment of the peaceful centuries-old coexistence of Christian and Muslim peoples. Regarding Iraq's political crisis, His Holiness appeals to the country's Christian and Muslim leaders and people to display willingness and understanding in halting the danger of the conflict being categorized as a religious one. The Catholicos of All Armenians calls upon spiritual leaders and faithful to work together in brotherly love to reestablish the natural inter-faith and social life of Iraq.
