Chaldean Patriarch Overjoyed, Says No Ransom Was Paid
Vatican City, July 16, 2014 (Zenit.org) | 146 hits
The Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon is ecstatic that nuns and orphans being held captive in Iraq have been released.
"I am overjoyed at the release of the two sisters and three orphans," the Patriarch of the Chaldean Church Mar Louis Raphael I Sako said, because it is "finally some good news" in a context of war, violence and division, reported AsianNews.it.
Noting that no ransom was paid, he made these remarks upon the news of the release of Sister Atur, Sister Miskinta and the three young children who were seized last June 28. The two Chaldean nuns belong to the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate which ran a foster home for abandoned and orphaned children in Mosul, near the Chaldean Archbishopric.
Their captors were linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, Sunni jihadists linked to al-Qaeda), which now declares itself the army of the Islamic caliphate. …More