Paris, July 29 (IANS) The French government has said that it was ready to welcome Christians fleeing from Iraqi city of Mosul which is **w controlled by militants of the Islamic State, media reported Tuesday. Last month, militants from Islamic State, previously k**wn as Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), seized large territories in **rthern Iraq, prompting Christian families in Mosul to flee, Al Jazeera reported. Islamic State had ordered Christian families to convert to Islam or leave the city. "France is outraged by these abuses that it condemns with the utmost firmness," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a joint statement Monday.
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France offers asylum to Iraqi Christians
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