DAR AL ISLAM - IRAQ: "CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ ARE ON THEIR WAY TO EXTINCTION..."

Iraqi leaders indifferent to 'endangered' Christians

The rector of the Major Seminary in Ankawa slams the grave crisis affecting the Church in Iraq, which he blames on terrorists and fanatics but also the indifference of the country’s political leadership towards minorities. The number of Christians has dropped by half; only 200-300,000 have not fled their homes.

“Christians in Iraq are on their way to extinction, cut off from the country’s political process,” said Redemptorist Fr Bashar Warda, newly-appointed rector of the St Peter Major Seminary, which was recently moved from Baghdad to Ankawa (Kurdistan) for security reasons.

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