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TELEPHONE CONTACT WITH Chaldean priest kidnapped, BUT STILL NO RELEASE

IRAK 02/09/2006 16:01
TELEPHONE CONTACT WITH Chaldean priest kidnapped, BUT STILL NO RELEASE
	Church and Mission, Standard
"I am Father Sirop, I'm in good health and are in the hands of the men who kidnapped me": these are the few words that Father Saad Sirop Hanna, the Catholic priest of the Chaldean Church was kidnapped on 15 August on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, was able to tell the phone to the Patriarch of Babylon, Archbishop Emmanuel III Dellly. He told the Patriarch MISNA contacted earlier in Baghdad, adding that the confirmation that the other side of the phone there was just the priest of his Church he was when the other person mentioned the subject of his thesis . "I expect 7 days, but nothing yet," added the MISNA Monsignor Delly, stating that at the end of the conversation he had with Father Sirop the kidnappers had assured the Patriarch that would released the hostages immediately. "It's exactly a week since I have not heard from him. We hope that they let themselves go as soon as possible and hopefully not kill him, "said the Chaldean patriarch. According to a member of the Iraqi Chaldean priest, he is not in the hands of the group that had seized more than two weeks ago, but it would have been "passed on" to other formations. In his phone call, however, that dates back exactly on Saturday, Father Sirop has explicitly stated to be "in the hands of the men who kidnapped me." Indiscretions gathered in religious circles, and that the Patriarch was not confirmed, say that over the last contact the kidnappers have also made unspecified "political demands". In previous contact the kidnappers of Father Hanna had made the request for a "substantial" ransom, as the MISNA had learned from religious sources contacted in Baghdad, without specifying further the amount of money. The Patriarch himself had confirmed it: "They want money. I do not know how many. But who took his father Hanna does not even have the slightest idea that the Chaldean Church is a Church mission following his faithful when migrating in the world and lives of donations and the generosity of its faithful "was clarified to MISNA Monsignor Delly August 22 last year. According to testimonies collected a few days after the abduction, the kidnapping of the Chaldean father (who in early September would have arrived in Italy to finish a doctorate in philosophy) was performed by a well organized, able to evade the controls of Security recently issued by the Iraqi government just around the Dora neighborhood (south Baghdad) where the cleric was taken immediately after the celebration of the Assumption. In Christian circles in Baghdad news of the kidnapping of Father Hanna continues to raise serious concern, since none of the Iraqis who had previous seizures men involved had never lasted more than 24 hours. [ MZ]