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Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with Him, and that some of us take not others for Lords beside Allah.’ But if they turn away, then say, ‘Bear witness that we have submitted to God.’ ((Al Quran 3:65)
Exterior of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher: The site is venerated as Golgotha, where Jesus was put on cross
Source: Catholic World News
Speaking in Australia, an Iraqi prelate discussed his plans to open a Catholic university in October.
The university will be located in Erbil, a city of 1.5 million that is capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan, an Australian diocesan newspaper reported.
The founding of the university, said Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, is “a way of fighting back against Daesh [the Islamic State] and saying we [Christians] are not going to go away.”
The university “will embrace our Christian and Yazidi young men and women who were forcefully displaced from their areas and homes in the Plain of Nienveh in Mosul,” he added. “The university will also open its doors wide for Muslims who would learn side by side with Christians and Yazedis with an aim to shape a new and promising future for Iraq and the region.”
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