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KIRKUK, Iraq, OCT. 5, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The situation for Christians in Iraq is a cause for worry, according to Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk.

The archbishop said this Sunday in response to the kidnapping of Imad Elias Abdul Karim, a 55-year-old Christian nurse who went missing Saturday in Kirkuk.

AsiaNews.it reported that the police found him dead Sunday night, and noted that the body had "obvious signs of torture."

Archbishop Sako had made a public appeal for the man's release, and in doing so called the situation of Christians in Iraq "worrying." He noted that increasingly, "Christians are a target of violence."

"Everybody knows," he added, "that Christians are citizens of this country and this city and no one has any doubts about their devotion to their country or their sincerity."

He denounced "acts against Christians who want to have a role in rebuilding the nation," and he called on "government authorities, the decent people of Iraq and Kirkuk, to do everything to protect all citizens, whoever they are."

Archbishop Sako appealed for "dialogue and sincere cooperation," and petitioned the "kidnappers of Imad Elias Abdul Karim to fear God" and to release the hostage so he could "return to his family and children as soon as possible."

AsiaNews reported that the nurse, a husband and father of two children, was getting into his car when a group of three people shot him, and then kidnapped him.

He had only been missing about a day when his lifeless body was found abandoned on the streets of Kirkuk.

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Let's Work Together

A response to: Anglicans Name Catholic an Honorary Canon

Abbot Edmund Power, Abbot of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls of Rome, urges all Catholics to work together with Anglicans (and, implicitly, Episcopalians) for the common good and for the Gospel to proclaim the message regarding Jesus in a culture which no longer recognizes Jesus.

How shall we respond to this? Recently, a Professor of Saint Joseph’s College, and Episcopalian, led a group of four students to visit the Catholic missions in Tanzania conducted by the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Father Walter Milandu drove the group of the members of St. Joseph’s College to all the missions conducted by the members of the CPPS. Two thousand kilometers in two weeks. Two of the students were Catholics, and the rest of them (two students and the professor), members of different Christian traditions. It is a good example, I think, of how we can work together for the common good (understanding in this case the needs of the people of Tanzania, over half of whom are Christian).

Hermes Kreilkamp

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Thank You, Father Schall

A response to: The Mind That Is Catholic

I teach Latin and Theory of Knowledge at a large public high school and happened to read this interview while at lunch. If God would grant me the grace to do so, I believe I would begin to weep. Fr. Schall has poignantly expressed what humane education is all about. This is it. There is nothing else. Thank you for publishing this piece.

Magister Christianus