Patriarch asks Americans to pray that Iraq's people can achieve peace

Published: 2005-06-13

DETROIT (CNS) -- Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel-Karim Delly of Baghdad, Iraq, has one request from Americans: Pray for the people of Iraq -- Christian and Muslim -- that they can achieve the peace and security necessary to lead normal lives. "Americans can help not only Chaldeans, but all Iraqis, by their prayers, because when it comes to material support, the country is very rich. We need prayers to have peace and security in our country, and after that we'll have prosperity," said the patriarch, spiritual leader of Chaldean Catholics worldwide since December 2003. "I ask Americans to pray for us, and continue to pray for us, and almighty God will find some way to help us," he told The Michigan Catholic, newspaper of the Detroit Archdiocese. He made the comments in a June 1 interview at the offices of the Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle, the Chaldean Catholic diocese for the eastern half of the United States, based in the Detroit suburb of Southfield.

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