Appeal
The Most Reverend Allen Harper, Primate of All Ireland
The Most Reverend Berry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales
and 15 other Bishops from the UK and Ireland for Ashraf residents protection
Christmas 2011

15 Bishops in the United Kingdom added their signatures to a Christmas Appeal signed by the Archbishop of Wales and Archbishop of Armagh, calling for UN protection for the 3300 residents of Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
The Appeal has worldwide support amongst the clergy from the Unites States to Australia.
The church leaders use the occasions of the Birth of Jesus Christ to call on the Iraqi government and UN member states to guarantee a safe and secure relocation of 3300 unarmed refugees in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, to third countries. Recalling from the Bible the church leaders said: “We cannot stand idly by the blood of the residents of that camp. Silence is complicity. Silence is facilitation. Silence is permission. And silence in some context can be a crime.” They called on “those political leaders, who until now have been silent on this critical issue, to raise their voice and condemn the displacement of the camp residents inside Iraq without international protection”.

– The Most Reverend Allen Harper, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
– The Most Reverend Berry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales
– The Right Reverend John Pritchard, Bishop of Oxford
– The Right Reverend Lord Harries of Pentregarth, former Bishop of Oxford
– The Right Reverend Dr. Lee S. Rayfield, Bishop of Swindon
– The Right Reverend Adrian Newman, Bishop of Stepney
– The Right Reverend Anthony Priddis, Bishop of Hereford
– The Right Reverend Peter Pryan Price, Bishop of Bath and Wales
– The Right Reverend Alan Gregory Clayton Smith, Bishop of St. Albans
– The Right Reverend Michael Arthur Hill, Bishop of Bristol
– The Right Reverend James Langstaff, Bishop of Rochester
– The Right Reverend Martin Warner, Bishop of Whitby
– The Right Reverend Richard Frith, Bishop of Hull
– The Right Reverend Martin Wallace, Bishop of Selby
– The Right Reverend Andrew Watson, Bishop of Aston
– The Right Reverend Kenneth Herbert Clarke, Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
– The Very Reverend Patrick Rooke, Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achony