严冬将至摩苏尔难民需要帮助
阿马迪亚（亚洲新闻）—孩子们的奶粉、御寒冬衣、药品、两台发电机、孩子们的校车车票等……，这是萨米尔·尤素福神父致函本社的信中列出的目前伊拉克摩苏尔基督徒难民们最需要的。这位伊拉克库尔德斯坦北部阿马迪亚-多胡克教区本堂司铎感谢本社以及本社发起的“收养一名摩苏尔基督徒”活动，他们教区收容了三千五百多个从摩苏尔和尼尼微平原地区逃来的基督徒、穆斯林、亚兹迪难民家庭。萨米尔神父告诉你们，“感谢你们的帮助，使这些难民保持了对上主耶稣的望德：如果说他们为了耶稣的名、为了对耶稣的爱而放弃了一切，那么耶稣永远也不会抛弃他们”。
本社决定继续支持萨米尔神父的计划和建议，特别在此发表萨米尔神父给本社主编的信，敬请亲爱的读者和友人们竭尽各自所能伸出援手。
萨米尔·尤素福神父致函本社信的全文如下：
Dear Fr. Bernardo,
First of all I would like to thank you for what you and AsiaNews are doing for us and for our cause: whenever you write about our tragedy, the tragedy of the Christian and Yazidi refugees, you help us to find solidarity, and overcome a sense of having been abandoned. Thousands of people are fleeing with nothing, for over a year they have been coming here in order to escape certain death; the roots of Christianity, sowed on the Nineveh plain since the first century AD have been comepletly wiped out in one night.
One year on from the beginning of this tragedy, we – the local Chaldean Church- are now finding it almost impossibile to continue facing this emergency, to come to the aid of these people who are fleeing from the fury of IS: we feed them, we give them accommodation and guarantee medicines and care.
In this way we help to keep the flame of hope alive in them that our Lord Jesus Christ is with them that even if they had to leave everything they had in His name and for His love, He will never abandon them.
But our aim is also to show that God’s love is for all the people that we are hosting: there are not only Christians (of all denominations) but also Yazidis and Muslims. And to do this, we rely on the charity of the Catholic Church worldwide, our patriarch of the Chaldean Church Mar Luis Sako and the good will of many Christians and benefactors such as the readers of AsiaNews.
For over a year now we have been living in a difficult situation: the people are out of work and we have to give them not only food but also "cash" to buy bread and milk and other small necessities, for them and for their children . Every day we face a list of bills to pay (fuel, water, electricity). Our daily work is not limited only to necessities: our mission as a Church is also to strengthen the faith of those who are in suffering and despair and encourage them not to be afraid. And now winter is coming and we face even greater concerns:
1) Finding the means to transport students to school, so they will not lose another school year.
2) Providing 200 families with the money to buy clothes for their children and other needs that must be addressed, especially in view of winter.
3) Paying for two electricity generators, in two refugee centers, because the electric current is supplied only a few hours a day and often not every day.
We once again appeal to your generosity and thank you in advance for any help and support you can give. We pray for you, and we ask you to do the same for us.
Fraternal greetings to you and to all AsiaNews readers.
Samir Yousif Al-khoury
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