Christians face 'disaster' in Iraq, church leader says

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https://s3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/IFfw3RAmFdAYiOyuDAMeOw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-AE_XE/News/AFPMideastEN/29490b5699fcbe786d70cc43f4a7044453e8905b.jpg (https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/christians-face-disaster-iraq-church-leader-says-120103765.html)Iraq's dwindling Christian community faces "disaster," and if ** action is taken they will number just a few thousand in a decade, the country's most senior church leader told AFP. Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako said the daily migration of Christians from Iraq was "terrifying" and blamed a range of factors, including generally poor security in the country and worsening religious extremism. Iraq's Christian community is a shadow of what it used to be -- once numbering more than a million nationwide, with upwards of 600,000 in Baghdad alone, there are **w fewer than 400,000 across the country. "The daily migration of Christians from Iraq is terrifying and very worrying," Sako told AFP from the ethnically-mixed **rthern city of Kirkuk on Friday evening.




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