{"id":1073,"date":"2004-04-28T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-01T20:26:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:26:50","slug":"bishop-in-iraq-urges-coalition-not-to-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/bishop-in-iraq-urges-coalition-not-to-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop in Iraq Urges Coalition Not to Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>&#8220;We were against the war from the beginning, but now it is important that the foreign contingents stay in Iraq,&#8221; Bishop Shlemon Warduni said in statements Sunday to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.<br \/>\n<P>&#8220;If they abandon us, it will be worse,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It would be a catastrophe if Rome followed the bad example of Madrid.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P>A former rector of the Baghdad Seminary, Bishop Warduni is collaborating in the effort to have civilian hostages freed, in particular three Italians who are in the country.<br \/>\n<P>&#8220;The case of the kidnapped Italians is only the tip of the iceberg,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Over the year, thousands of Iraqis have been kidnapped: for money, for political vengeance, or for a thousand other reasons. Proportionally, the Catholic minority has been one of the worst hit.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P>&#8220;For this reason too the coalition troops must stay,&#8221; the bishop said. &#8220;It is necessary to establish order, to provide security again. It would be a tragedy to respond to the conditions of the kidnappers.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We were against the war from the beginning, but now it is important that the foreign contingents stay in Iraq,&#8221; Bishop Shlemon Warduni said in statements Sunday to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera. &#8220;If they abandon us, it will be worse,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It would be a catastrophe if Rome followed the bad &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-iraq"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}