I am not happy when people ask, “How is the situation for Christians?” Those who kill don’t kill only Christians. They kill Muslims as well—the situation is the same for both …. The Christian house is next to the Muslim house. Each has his own religion, each defends his own home, each defends his religion. But your faith is for God, the country is for everyone.

- Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, patriarch of the Baghdad-based Chaldean Church, which has existed for nearly 2,000 years. The pope recently named him, along with 22 others from around the world, to the College of Cardinals, making Delly the first Roman Catholic Cardinal from Iraq in modern history. (Source: The New York Times)