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(Tablet) Christians forced to flee Mosul on foot after death threat ultimatum from Islamists

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Kendall Harmon

The Iraqi city of Mosul is empty of Christians for the first time in the history of the country, the country’s most senior Chaldean Catholic said.

Patriarch Louis Sako said the city’s Christians ”“ who until last month numbered a few thousand ”“ were fleeing for the neighbouring autonomous region of Kurdistan.

Christian families abandoned homes and belongings and some were robbed of their vehicles by the jihadists and forced to flee on foot. Some Dominican nuns based in nearby Qaraqosh said that the jihadists had demanded the Christians hand over money, personal documents, passports, cars, and all valuable items.

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One comment on “(Tablet) Christians forced to flee Mosul on foot after death threat ultimatum from Islamists”

  1. Terry Tee says:
    July 25, 2014 at 1:53 am

    UK readers might like to know that there will be a demonstration this Saturday at Parliament Square in London at 12 midday, calling for protection for Iraqi Christians, organised by London churches of Eastern Christians.