(GET IT FROM THE (((POPE)))! CDH)      Iraqi archbishop pleads with Trump: ‘We need your help now’

Olivier Knox
Yahoo NewsNovember 27, 2017

President Trump and the Chaldean archbishop of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, Monsignor Bashar Warda (Photos: Alex Brandon/AP, Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)
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WASHINGTON — A senior Iraqi Catholic leader is urgently pleading with President Trump to provide millions of dollars in aid to rebuild thousands of Christian homes destroyed in the war with the so-called Islamic State, saying the survival of that religious minority may be at stake.

“We need more than words, it’s time for action,“ the Chaldean archbishop of Erbil, Bashar Warda, told Yahoo News in an interview Monday conducted in a hotel in Washington, D.C.


Asked what he would say if he could meet face to face with Trump or Vice President Mike Pence, Warda replied: “We need your help now, not tomorrow, not to think about it, not to consult your adviser — with all my respect.”

Warda said the homes of 14,000 Christian families in Nineveh province were damaged or destroyed during the years of conflict against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, and that he hopes to gather about $262 mi   https://www.yahoo.com/news/iraqi-archbishop-pleads-trump-need-help-now-220932489.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/iraqi-archbishop-pleads-trump-need-help-now-220932489.html