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Mr. Madloum Maroki , official of the Chaldean Syriac Assyrians Popular Council office in Canada accompanied by Mr. Aphram Iskandar Alhozi, member of the Council visited His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV , Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East at his residence in Toronto.
His Holiness welcomed the delegation expressing his happiness for this visit, then the delegation thanked the Patriarch after announcing his support for the development of the province in the Nineveh Plain for all the components living there, including our people , as well as his support for the autonomy in the Kurdistan Region, His Holiness emphasized on the necessity and the need to unify our parties, because we all belong to one church, so as to work hand in hand for our people, especially that they are suffering from various kinds of marginalization , displacement, killing and the demographic change that affected on their villages and towns, which led to the decreasing on their numbers, and consequently this will affect their future and their existence in the country, however we are today desperately need to exchange views directly to remove the obstacles that hinder our unity, and we should work with an open mind and the love of Christ , who said one flock and one shepherd.
   The delegation asked His Holiness for his opinion on the letter that HH Patriarch Louis I Sako Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, addressed to him on the occasion of his birthday, where he said: “We have had contacts on the sidelines of this letter and we are ready to open a dialogue, and even to activate the previous dialogue in the era of Mar Raphael I Bedawed, taking into consideration a visit the Supreme Pontiff in Rome in this regard, and we will not spare any effort to achieve this noble objective , we need the Holy Spirit which accompanied the Apostles to enlighten us, so as we become one church of Christ, based on his fame saying ( ( when two meets on my name, I’m among them) ), and relatively,  his sovereignty urged our writers and journalists on the websites to stop and think before exchanging charges haphazardly, so as the good word will fill the land for the good of all believers.
   At the end of the meeting, the delegation thanked the Patriarch for the warm welcome. This meeting was also attended by the Archbishop Mar Emmanuel Joseph Bishop of the Assyrian Church of the East in Canada, Father Odisho Odisho the pastor of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Toronto and Father Antoine Lajin the personal secretary to His Holiness.

Secretariat of the Council