Messages For Baby Arrivals

recommendation that Christians can remain in the Middle East

recommendations in the conclusion to the congress called on the Christians of Iraq

Agony of a presence or resurrection ,
Beirut, February 19, 2009

Transcription not revised by the authors, edited by Ida Soldini

recommend to the Eastern Churches: Making

1. year 2009 the Year of the existence of a prgoramma cristinai Iraq's cultural and religious activities and humanitarian aid
2. organize a day of prayer by 'intention unified in all the churches of Lebanon for Iraq crsitiani
3. Formare un Alto Comitato il cui compito sia favorire la causa dei rifugiati cristiani irakeni nei paesi circonvicini in collaborazione con i governi di detti paesi e delle autorità delle chiese
   

Alle autorità libanesi raccomandiamo di:

1. Concedere dei permessi di soggiorno temporanei e rinnovabili per i rifugiati irakeni esentandoli dal pagamento delle tasse dovute per tali permessi e dal fornire le garanzie da essi di norma richiesti
2. Facilitare ai rifugiati iracheni l’accesso ai sevizi sociali, sanitari, educativi ect… in collaborazione con l’ONU e il governo irakeno
   

Alla comunità internazionale e all’Orgnizzazione delle Nazioni Unite raccomandiamo to:

1. Organizing a conference to study the issue of minorities in Iraq with a view to ensuring the preservation of their existence and the right to exercise the role that they deserve
2. Open UN office in collaboration with the Iraqi government in the regions inhabited by refugees, particularly in Syria, Jordan and Turkey
3. Working with the Iraqi government agreed to implement the international conventions concerning indigenous peoples
4. increase aid offered to Iraqi refugees in Iraq and beyond its borders , directly or through the governments involved, to ensure that the aid reaches its destination.
   

recommend to the League of Arab States and the Congress of Islamic Countries to:

1. Hiring of decisions that contribute to the protection of Christians both in Iraq and in other countries oreintali
2. Working agrees with other Islamic institutions to proclaim fatwas that prohibit any aggression against the Christian citizens of Iraq
   

recommend that the Iraqi authorities to

1. Ensuring fair representation of Christians in parliament, with regard to the district councils recommend to take as set out in Article 50 of the Constitution before it was repealed. Apply
2. Article 125 of the Constitution, in which the rights of cultural, political and educational services of different ethnicities are warranted.
3. ensure that job opportunities are distributed fairly to all Iraqis without discrimination or marginalization of any of the communities.
4. amend the Constitution so that citizenship is the fundamental criterion of public life, and not religion or ethnicity.
5. Ensure the right of Iraqis to return to the emigrants, to facilitate falling in possession of their property, and ensure compensation for land which were confiscated as a function of the public good.
6. encourage emigrants to return to Iraq and investment in their regions, to enact a special law to return the Iraqi nationality to those who have lost it during the previous regime.
7. Valuing the poorest regions of means, and quickly take of development projects in which jobs are created for the inhabitants of these regions.