Ku Iraq, Papa akuyembekeza kulimbikitsa akhristu, kumanga milatho ndi Asilamu

Paulendo wake wakale ku Iraq mu Marichi, Papa Francis akuyembekeza kulimbikitsa gulu lake lachikhristu, lomwe lidavulazidwa kwambiri ndi mikangano yazipembedzo komanso kuzunzidwa mwankhanza ndi Islamic State, pomwe akumanga milatho ina ndi Asilamu popereka mtendere waubale. Chizindikiro chaupapa cha ulendowu chikuwonetsa izi, chosonyeza Papa Francis ndi mitsinje yotchuka ya Tigris ndi Firate ku Iraq, mgwalangwa, ndi nkhunda itanyamula nthambi ya azitona pamwamba pa mbendera za Vatican ndi Iraq. Mwambi wakuti: "Nonsenu ndinu abale" unalembedwa m'Chiarabu, Chaldean ndi Kurdish. Ulendo woyamba wapapa kudziko lakale la Iraq kuyambira 5 mpaka 8 Marichi ndiwofunikira. Kwa zaka zambiri, papa wanena poyera nkhawa zake za mavuto ndi kuzunzidwa kwa akhristu aku Iraq ndi zomwe amachitira zipembedzo zing'onozing'ono, kuphatikiza a Yazidis, omwe adazunzidwa ndi asitikali achi Islamic State ndipo agwidwa pamipando ya Sunnis ndi Shiite Chiwawa cha Asilamu.

Mikangano ikupitilizabe pakati pa anthu ambiri aku Shia aku Iraq ndi Asilamu ochepa a Sunni, pomwe omverawo akumva kuti akumanidwa ufulu wachibadwidwe pambuyo pa kugwa kwa 2003 kwa Saddam Hussein, Msilamu wa Sunni yemwe adalekanitsa ma Shiite kwa zaka 24 pansi pa boma lake laling'ono. "Ndine m'busa wa anthu omwe akuvutika," atero Papa Francis ku Vatican asanakachezere. M'mbuyomu, Papa adati akuyembekeza kuti Iraq "itha kuyang'anizana ndi zamtsogolo kudzera mwamtendere komanso mogwirizana pokomera anthu onse, kuphatikizaponso achipembedzo, osabwereranso kunkhondo zomwe zidayambitsidwa ndi mikangano yoopsa mderalo. mphamvu. "" Papa adzafika nati: 'Nkhondo yokwanira, nkhanza zokwanira; funani mtendere ndi ubale komanso kuteteza ulemu wa anthu '', adatero Cardinal Louis Sako, kholo la Tchalitchi cha Katolika cha Chaldean ku Baghdad. Kadinalayu wakhala akugwira ntchito kwa zaka zingapo kuti awone ulendo wa papa ku Iraq ukukwaniritsidwa. Papa Francis "atibweretsera zinthu ziwiri: chitonthozo ndi chiyembekezo, zomwe mpaka pano zidakanidwa," adatero Kadinala.

Ambiri mwa akhristu aku Iraq ndi a Tchalitchi cha Katolika cha Chaldean. Ena amapembedza mu Tchalitchi cha Katolika cha Suriya, pomwe ochepa amapita ku Latin, Maronite, Greek, Coptic ndi Armenia. Palinso mipingo yosakhala Katolika monga Mpingo wa Asuri ndi zipembedzo za Chiprotestanti. Pomwe panali pafupifupi 1,5 miliyoni, akhristu masauzande mazana ambiri adathawa ziwawa zazipembedzo atachotsedwa Saddam pomwe mipingo ku Baghdad idaphulitsidwa bomba, kuba ndi kuwukira kwazipembedzo zina zidaphulika. Atha kupita kumpoto kapena achoka mdziko lonselo. Akhristu adathamangitsidwa m'dziko la makolo awo ku chigwa cha Nineve pamene dziko la Islamic lidagonjetsa chigawochi mu 2014. Akhristu ambiri adathawa chifukwa cha nkhanza zawo mpaka pomwe adatulutsidwa mu 2017. Tsopano, chiwerengero cha akhristu aku Iraq chatsika pang'ono 150.000. Gulu lachikhristu lomwe lakhazikika, lomwe limati ndi la atumwi ndipo limagwiritsabe ntchito Chiaramu, chilankhulo cholankhulidwa ndi Yesu, amafunitsitsa kuwona zovuta zake.

Episkopi wa Akatolika Yousif Mirkis waku Kirkuk akuti pakati pa 40% ndi 45% ya akhristu "abwerera kumidzi ya makolo awo, makamaka Qaraqosh". Kumeneko, kumanganso kwa mipingo, nyumba ndi mabizinesi kumachitika makamaka ndi ndalama zochokera kutchalitchi ndi mabungwe achikatolika, komanso maboma aku Hungary ndi US, osati Baghdad. Kwa zaka zambiri, Cardinal Sako wapempha boma la Iraq, lotsogozedwa ndi andale ambiri achiShia, kuti achitire Akhristu ndi anthu ena ochepa ngati nzika zofanana ndi ufulu wofanana. Akukhulupiriranso kuti uthenga wa Papa Francis wamtendere ndi ubale ku Iraq ukhazikitsa mwayi wopembedza pakati pa azipembedzo azachisilamu mzaka zaposachedwa, tsopano akutambasula dzanja lake kwa Asilamu a Shia. "Mutu wa tchalitchichi akamalankhula ndi Asilamu, ife akhristu timawonetsedwa kuyamikiridwa ndi ulemu," adatero Cardinal Sako Msonkhano wa Papa Francis ndi m'modzi mwa anthu odziwika kwambiri mu Chisilamu, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, ndiwofunika kwambiri pantchito yapapa yolimbikitsa dziko lonse lachiSilamu. Msonkhanowu udatsimikizidwa ndi a Vatican. Katswiri wokhudza ubale wachi Shiite ku Dominican Father Ameer Jaje, adati chiyembekezo chimodzi chikhoza kukhala kuti Ayatollah al-Sistani asaine chikalata, "Pa ubale waumunthu kuti pakhale bata padziko lonse lapansi komanso kukhala limodzi", yomwe imalimbikitsa Akhristu ndi Asilamu kuti agwire ntchito limodzi mwamtendere. Chofunika kwambiri paulendo wa Francis ku United Arab Emirates mu february 2019 chinali kusaina chikalata cha ubale pamodzi ndi a Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb, imam wamkulu wa al-Azhar University komanso wamkulu wa Sunni Islam.

A Jaje adauza CNS patelefoni kuchokera ku Baghdad kuti "msonkhanowu uchitikira ku Najaf, komwe al-Sistani amakhala". Mzindawu uli pamtunda wa makilomita 100 kumwera kwa Baghdad, likulu la mphamvu zauzimu ndi ndale za Shia Islam komanso malo opembedzera otsatira Shia. Kwa nthawi yayitali amawoneka ngati olimbikitsa kukhazikika ngakhale adakhala zaka 90, Ayatollah al-Sistani ndi wokhulupirika ku Iraq, mosiyana ndi azipembedzo ena omwe amayang'ana ku Iran kuti awathandize. Amalimbikitsa kulekana kwachipembedzo ndi zochitika zadziko. Mu 2017, adalimbikitsanso anthu onse aku Iraq, posatengera chipembedzo chawo kapena mtundu wawo, kuti amenye nkhondo kuti atulutse dziko la Islamic m'malo mwa dziko lawo. Owonerera amakhulupirira kuti msonkhano wa papa ndi Ayatollah ukhoza kukhala wophiphiritsa kwambiri kwa anthu aku Iraq, koma makamaka kwa akhristu, omwe msonkhanowu ungasinthe tsamba lawo m'maubale azipembedzo mdziko lawo.