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Iraqi archbishop: Christians, tired of waiting, will leave country
08-01-2010
LONDON (CNS) -- Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk, Iraq, has predicted a new wave of emigration from the war-torn country involving Christians who have tired of waiting for their situation to improve.
The archbishop said many Christians taking refuge in northern Iraq were determined "to leave the country for good" after concluding that, nearly seven years after the invasion of Iraq by a U.S.-led coalition, it was still unsafe to return to their homes in the South.
He told the British branch of Aid to the Church in Need, a charity set up to help suffering and persecuted Christians, that a lack of jobs and services in the Kurdish north would speed emigration.
"In Kurdistan, the security is quite good, but there are no jobs, no services and facilities in the new villages built by the Kurdish government," Archbishop Sake said in a Jan. 6 statement issued by the charity.
"Therefore many families are leaving the country for good."
The charity reported that the Christian population in Iraq has dropped from 1.4 million in 1987 to barely 300,000 today.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20100107.htm
