12-8-08
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081209/METRO/812090429/1361
On a three-week tour of the United States, Cardinal Mar Emmanuel III Delly, the patriarch of Babylon, is meeting today with members of the largest Chaldean community outside of Iraq, here in Metro Detroit.
Delly, 81, is the highest ranking Eastern Catholic cleric in Iraq, and the titular leader of the oldest community of Christians in the world. He has remained in Iraq amid persecution of the Christian minorities, while other church leaders fled with hundreds of thousands of refugees.
He was injured by shattered glass in an attack in Iraq, shortly after his elevation to cardinal, in 2007.
"Being the spiritual superior of the community, it's important to ask him questions, especially because his chair is in Iraq," said Joseph Kassab, executive director of the Chaldean Federation of America, in Farmington Hills. "He is the only one who has not yet moved his chair from Iraq. He is very resilient and says he would rather stay with his people than to remove himself."
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