Thanks to various sponsors, our agency has donated 25 thousand Euros to contribute to the travel and accommodation costs. Meanwhile, the young boys and girls are preparing for the event with prayer meetings and retreats. Fr. Samir of Amadiya to our readers: "Thank you for your help", young Iraqis "are praying for you." Tomorrow they leave for Wroclaw, for a week of missionary animation.
Erbil (AsiaNews) - A group of Iraqi Christian refugees who fled from Mosul and the Nineveh Plain in the summer of 2014 with the rise of the Islamic State (SI), are preparing with prayers and meetings for World Youth Day (WYD) scheduled to take place in Poland July 27 to 31. In recent weeks, AsiaNews has been active through our sponsors and has donated a sum of 25 thousand euro to the Church of Iraq, to contribute to the travel and accommodation costs for these young people.
Fr. Samir Youssef, pastor of the diocese of Amadiya (Kurdistan), which cares for 3,500 displaced Christian, Muslim and Yazidi families thanks our sponsors and agency on behalf of the boys and girls "for the concrete help", without which "it would have been very difficult to make this pilgrimage."
"I thank you all so very much - adds the Chaldean priest, originally from Mosul - and pray for you. I will remember you in a special way in my prayers".
Tomorrow, July 19, the young Iraqis will leave for Wroclaw for a week of programed missionary animation, in preparation for World Youth Day and the meeting with Pope Francis. At the end of the week they will travel to Krakow, where the young Iraqis will participate in the Stations of the Cross and recite the "Our Father" in Aramaic.
There will be over 200 young Iraqis - boys and girls - attending the event, coming from all the dioceses of the country. The delegation will be led by Msgr. Warda, Msgr. Basil Yaldo (deputy to Chaldean Patriarch Raphael Louis Sako), a dozen priests and a group of nuns.