The head of the Chaldean Catholic Church is calling on the faithful to reach out to Muslims in order to foster a common understanding of religious liberty and cooperation in supporting it.
“The majority Muslim population is good and not violent,” said Archbishop Louis Raphael I Sako, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon. “They do not agree with the extremists but they are also afraid to react publicly.” He noted that moderate Muslims are “the majority,” and said that they must promote religious freedom and civil harmony in their societies. “They must prove to the world through deeds that Islam is not a religion of ‘terror and killing’ of innocent civilians.” The archbishop suggested that the Catholic Church produce a document for Muslims to translate ideas of religious freedom into a language more understandable to Islamic thinking.
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