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انسانیت کا روشن چہرہ

مجھے کچھ دیر پہلے میسج ملا جو درج ذیل ہے۔

"آیت اللہ سیستانی دام ظلہ نے حکم دیا ہے کہ داعش نے جن عیسائی لڑکیوں کو گرفتار کیا اور اب انہیں بیچ رہے ہیں اُن عیسائی لڑکیوں کو خرید کر عزت کے ساتھ ان کے والدین تک پہنچایا جائے
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اس اعلان نے دنیائے مسیحیت کو حیرت میں ڈال دیا ہے اور آقائی سیستانی کا مقام اور عزت پوری دنیا میں بلند کردیا۔

عیسائیت کے سب سے بڑے پوپ عراق پہنچ رہے ہیں تاکہ وہ آیت اللہ سیستانی کے چھوٹے سے گھر میں اُن سے ملاقات کرسکیں اور عیسائی چرچ کے ذرائع کے مطابق
پوپ کا کسی کے گھر جا کر ملنے کا یہ پہلا واقعہ ہے۔ دنیائے شیعت کے عظیم مرجع کا ایک چھوٹا سا کرائے کا گھر دنیا کے بادشاہوں کے محلات پر بھاری ہوگیا محلات کے مالک پوپ سے ملنے رومن کیتھلک چرچ وییکن سٹی آتے ہیں اور وہی پوپ فرزندِ علی کے چھوٹے سے گھر میں ملنے آرہا ہے۔
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Excerpts from Pope Francis' amazing, tear-jerking address at the interreligious meeting in Ur, birthplace of Abraham. #PopeFrancisInIraq #CatholicMuslimBridge vatican.va/content/france…
"In those stars, Abraham saw the promise of his descendants; he saw us. Today we, Jews, Christians and Muslims, together with our brothers and sisters of other religions, honour our father Abraham by doing as he did: we look up to heaven and we journey on earth."
"Those same stars...illumine the darkest nights because they shine *together.* ...The Almighty above invites us never to separate ourselves from our neighbours. The otherness of God points us towards others, towards our brothers & sisters."
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Readout from the meeting between @Pontifex and Grand Ayatollah #Sistani:

“Grand Ayatollah Sistani thanked the Pope for taking the hardship of the trip to Najaf to visit him and wished him & the world’s Catholics happiness, blessings & prosperity.” (1)

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Readout from the meeting between @Pontifex and Grand Ayatollah #Sistani:

“G. ayatollah Sistani emphasized the importance of securing a peaceful & secure life for Iraqi Christians and protecting their constitutional rights, explaining the measures he took for this purpose.” (2)
Readout from the meeting between @Pontifex and Grand Ayatollah #Sistani:

“Grand Ayatollah Sistani emphasized the role of religious & spiritual leaders in easing the suffering of oppressed people worldwide & called on great powers to adopt reason & wisdom rather than war.” (3)
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THREAD: Iraq boasts a 2,000-yr-old continuous Christian community rooted in its ancient civilization & geography. The apostle St Thomas founded his faith in Iraq, fr where he traveled to convert India, China & Ethiopia along the trading routes for silk & spices #PopeFrancisInIraq
“We have Christianity in Iraq from the very beginning,” Kirkuk Archbishop Fr. Yousif Toma (Toma references St. Thomas) told me. “Christianity spread very quickly from the first century & we've a long & interesting history. The first churches in the world were founded here.”
In the N. town of Mangesh, a cave can still be seen where St. Thomas taught his disciples that was a place of protection. "St Thomas travelled fr Iraq to the far East & the exact kind of cave has been found in China," says Fr. Toma who has documented Iraq's early Christian sites.
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Thread: In 2011, Furat, 23, met with me in Iraq's capital to discuss his surviving the Oct 31, 2010 attack on Our Lady of Salvation Syriac Catholic Cathedral in Baghdad, Sayedat AlNajat سيدة النجاة.
"I would like the world to know what happened here," he said.
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Going back, Sun. Jan 29, 2006 was a bloody day for Christians in Iraq. Car bombs exploded in coordinated attacks on at least four churches in Baghdad & the northern city of Kirkuk within 20 minutes, as well as outside the Vatican mission in the capital, killing & wounding dozens.
"Aftr the 2006 attacks the govt. supplied army vehicles to secure churches on Sundays. Then they started bringing private security who weren't well trained," Furat said. "Just hours before the Sayedat AlNajat attack, I thought to myself how easy it would be to bomb the church."
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