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Iraq's Christian population cut by half.(Brief article)
Prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, noted Chaldean Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Andreos Abouna of Baghdad in a recent address to British charitable groups, about 1.2 million Christians lived in the predominantly Muslim country. Since that time, roughly half of the Iraqi Christians have fled their homeland, driven out by persecution and sectarian violence. Three-quarters of Baghdad's Christians have left the Iraqi capital city.
"What we are hearing now is the alarm bell for Christianity in Iraq," stated ...
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