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ASIA/IRAQ - Massacre on the eve of the Islamic holiday. Patriarch Sako writes to "Muslim brothers": fratricidal struggles open the gates of hell

Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "We have two options: either we unite and cooperate so that our country recovers completely, or we persist in perpetuating our struggles, and open - God forbid - the gates of hell". This is the message Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, addressed to the Islamic brothers "in view of Eid al Adha, the "Feast of the Sacrifice" which this year is celebrated on July, 21 by Islamic communities around the world. The words chosen by the Patriarch are even more eloquent after the massacre attack perpetrated yesterday, Monday, July 19, in a popular market in the Sadr City district, east of the Iraqi capital, mostly inhabited by Shiites. The terrorist action, the work of a kamikaze woman wearing an explosive belt, caused at least 35 deaths and 60 injuries.

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