Welcome Newcomers to San Diego

The Chaldean Community welcomes our dear brothers and sisters who are entering San Diego as refugees. They fled their country of Iraq because of the inhumane killings, threats, and ethnic cleansing the Christians are facing in their homeland for the past few years.

“These families or individuals need our help. We are obligated to greet them with most respect and love,” Bishop Sarhad Yawsip Jammo pointed out at the onset of his homily greeting the Newcomers on Sunday Sep.23, 2007. He also explained that we should not consider our help & donations toward them as alms or kindness, but as aid and

rescue to a relative in need. Most of these families were not needy or poor in their houses, they had jobs and families, but they had to leave everything behind to avoid being kidnapped or killed.