NCRI – Renowned French Bishop Jacques Gaillot has praised the Iranian opposition activists in Camp Liberty in Iraq for their struggle against dictatorship and to bring freedom and democracy to Iran.
Bishop Gaillot addressed a gathering of hundreds of French supporters of the Iranian Resistance celebrating the New Year on January 10, 2016.
Camp Liberty in Iraq houses thousands of members of the main Iranian opposition movement, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK).
Text of speech by Bishop Jacques Gaillot:
Mrs. [Maryam] Rajavi, dear friends, I am eager to offer you three wishes: the first one, long life, today, tomorrow, and every single day. Be alive until death comes. Because you know life is fragile, we can lose it quickly, when we least expect it. You also know that for some, life is hard. Some only survive, and some died. And I’m thinking about our friends at Camp Liberty.
My second wish, be men and women ready to move forward, united, resisting. And don’t stop on the way. If we stop, we die. We’re moving forward; we’re together; we don’t look back; we’re looking to the future. And I think our friends at Camp Liberty with the way they live and the way they fight give us the courage to face the future.
My third wish, is that you offer shelter. It’s a nice thing to offer shelter. We go into other people’s homes, and we invite others to come into our home. That’s what you did at Christmas. The Iranian Resistance and the PMOI, with their president Maryam Rajavi, went to mass on Christmas Eve at the church in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. The Christians there were a bit surprised at first, and then appreciated your presence. And the reactions I heard were full of praises.
Where I attend at the Congregation of the Holy Spirit in Paris, we modestly welcomed two refugees. An Afghan, and a Kurdish-Iraqi from Mosul. Two Muslims that we really like, and they’re a blessing for our community. That is what hospitality is about. We invite people to come to our home, and we sometimes go into theirs. Hospitality enables us to create strong friendships. When we break the bread and share friendship, we are linked.