The meeting of the Council of the Heads of Christian churches is currently being held in Baghdad. As Mgr Shleimun Warduni, Chaldean Patriarch Vicar, explained to Baghdadhope, "we met to establish this council that will gather, we think twice a year, all the heads of the Christian churches in Iraq: Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant. We are setting the rules, a kind of status that the works of the council will follow." The current meeting is chaired by Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Mar Emmanuel III Delly, but "there will be elections to determine who will preside it in the future and who will be the secretary," explained Mgr Warduni. The meeting is being attended, among others, by cardinal Warduni himself, by the Chaldean bishops Mgr Jacques Isaac and Mgr Andraous Abouna, by Patriarch Mar Addai II for the Ancient Church of the East, by bishop of Baghdad Mgr Jean B. Sleiman for the Latin Church, by Mgr George Qas Musa, Syriac Catholic bishop of Mosul, for the Syriac Catholic Church, and by Mgr Avak Asadorian, bishop of the Armenian Apostolic Church. "It is necessary and desirable that the churches, all churches, meet in order to better face the challenges that the future of Iraq will bring. What we all want is the good of our beloved country and for this we will work," concluded Mgr Warduni.
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