A Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church has called for people of all religious denominations to stop the spread of the “ISIS cancer” with “a united and strong stance”.

In a statement on Saturday, Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad called “for Muslims and non-Muslim people of goodwill around the world to deal seriously (and) not superficially" with terrorist threats, adding that the patriarch asked the Muslim community to "show the real face of Islam" and confirm that extremism is contrary to their beliefs.