With all the violence in Baghdad and across Iraq, and the threat against Christians by religious extremists, it's hard to believe the Patriarch of the Chaldeans and primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church maintains a base in Iraq. But he does - and CNN spoke to him recently.

Now producer Saad Abedine is sending us behind-the-scenes pictures of the interview with his Eminence Cardinal Mar Emmanuel III Delly; and of an interesting wall carpet depicting Jesus Christ on the cross. The wall hanging - believe it or not - was a present from Iran and the Cardinal's assistant joked that the Apostles looked rather like Muslim religious figures.





Saad Abedine tells me Cardinal Delly ended the interview by saying that his message in life is to urge people to love one another and that “this is the message of Jesus Christ, the message of the church, the message of each one of us, the message of my brethrens the Muslims. Whenever there is love, wherever there is love, everything else vanishes."

Posted by Hala Gorani