Ten years ago, in the days following Aug. 6-7, 2014, the city of Erbil in northern Iraq became one of the largest concentrations of internally displaced people on earth. Driven eastward across the Nineveh Plains by ISIS terror, nearly 1 million Iraqis of all faiths found themselves fleeing for their lives through the blazing heat of the Iraqi summer.
Included among the violently displaced that summer were nearly 150,000 Iraqi Christians from some of the world’s most ancient Christian communities. Many of them ended up in the diocese where I am pastor.
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