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Iraqi bishop says Islamic State are "thieves, fanatics" * Pope Francis says Mosul
Christians persecuted * Fleeing family says robbed at checkpoint By Raheem Salman BAGHDAD, July 20 (Reuters) - A senior
Iraqi bishop urged the
world to act on Sunday
after Islamic hardliners drove
Mosul's Christians from the **rthern
Iraqi city, effectively ending a presence there dating back to Christianity's earliest years. "The
world must act, speak out, consider human rights," Chaldean Catholic
bishop Shlemon Warduni said on Sunday, a day
after a deadline expired for
Christians in Mosul to submit to the rule of the radical Islamic State or die. The
bishop said the solution to the crisis should be in Iraq's own hands but the state was weak and divided, and Muslim leaders had failed to speak out.
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