Sako: 1000 Shiites in Nasiriyah call themselves Chaldeans

Shafaq News/ The head of the Chaldean Church in Iraq and the world, Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, revealed the existence of a group of Shiite Muslims in the city of Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, who call themselves "Chaldeans", stressing that religion does not cancel identity. Sako had delivered a speech at the Stations of the Cross Mass in the Church of Abraham in the city of Ur in Nasiriyah, with the participation of Bishop Basilios Yaldo…