Hani, iraqueno , is living with great concern the events and suffering of Christians in Iraq. There are all her family. Christians are increasingly subject of persecution, attacks and killings, including the indifference of local police and the silence of the international authorities.
Pope Benedict XVI has intervened several times in support of Christians and demanding justice and respect towards them.
The most terrible and hideous massacre took place Oct. 31 in the Syrian Catholic cathedral , Our Lady of Perpetual Help, in central Baghdad and killed two young priests and 58 other people and also injured hundred other people. A third priest, wounded, died later.
A group of those injured was transported to Italy, at the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome, to be cared for and supported morally after the terrible shock now in the church. Hani went to find these people to listen and share their pain. He wrote a note.
Have you heard of the tragedy and suffering that Christians are experiencing in Iraq. I could not write anything before, but now I can not express the pain and anguish I feel and share with them all.
I hear the cries of two young priests that are slaughtered and bathed in their blood before the altar while celebrating Mass and pray for peace, I hear the cry of a woman whose four-month baby in her arms was killed with a shotgun, and the cry of Adam (a three year old child killed between dad and mom) said that for two hours only this word: "Enough, enough ...." and then he is killed, the cry of a pregnant woman brought close to a suicide bomber and blew it up with him, the cry of a young man who tries to save her father, with whom he is then killed.
So many painful stories they have told me personally injured by the attack in Baghdad in the Church dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, who came to the Gemelli hospital thanks to the Holy See and the Italian state.
More than sixty Christians killed by the terrorists, who continue to kill undisturbed.
Even as I write this letter, I received the news of 
two more Christians killed in Musola ( Mosul ). The Christians there are victims of terrorism, which kills without mercy, without distinguishing between children, youth, elderly, women and men, also without regard to any place prayer.
L to our strength is not violence, not make bombs or suicide bombers to kill innocent people. Our strength is in prayer, trust in the Lord and the Virgin Mary.
AP
Dear friends,
What strikes us the drama of this note we want to let you know and as we have done in recent days we feel close to our brothers and our iraqueni brother Hani and his family, prayer and our solidarity, asking ourselves justice and respect in peaceful coexistence.
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