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The Islamic State has been defeated and bombings and kidnappings have also decreased, but Iraq’s Christians still don’t find the cradle of Christianity livable and continue to leave the country that has now become a land of militias, causing concerns among church leaders.
An Iraqi archbishop explained at a G20 event centered on the role of religion in helping to solve global problems that Christianity in his country is “on the very edge of extinction.”
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- If you were wondering, the war in Ukraine is having an adverse effect on the Chaldean Catholic community in northern Iraq, which itself went through spasms of violence eight years ago when an Islamic State terror campaign threatened to empty the region of its Christians. Inflation is taking its toll, too. 'The prices of everything,' including food and gasoline, are 'getting high,' said Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq. 'Everything is higher by 25%.' Archbishop Warda,
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- If you were wondering, the war in Ukraine is having an adverse effect on the Chaldean Catholic community in northern Iraq, which itself went through spasms of violence eight years ago when an Islamic State terror campaign threatened to empty the region of its Christians. Inflation is taking its toll, too. 'The prices of everything,' including food and gasoline, are 'getting high,' said Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq. 'Everything is higher by 25%.' Archbishop Warda,
Qualified doctors, nursing, teachers, professors. i like it and i like it more because the future of the country depends on the diversity. that's a mosaic. it's wonderful, wonderful. everyone have contributed in making iraq what we know as iraq. the mosaic must be maintained. it should be and we are responsible for it. archbishop bashar warda, i thank you very much indeed for being on hardtalk, thank you. thank you.