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Christians are being driven from MidEast, says the Pope

Pope Francis
Pope Francis

(IraqiNews.com) Pope Francis said Christians are being “driven from the Middle East” in a message to Iraqi Christians who fled from Mosul after the city was taken by the ISIS group militants in June 2014.

In his video message to Iraqi Christians, the Pope said, “Due to an extremist fundamentalist group, entire communities, especially, but not only, Christians and Yazidis, suffered, and still suffer inhuman violence…I firmly advocate a stronger international consensus to solve the conflict that is plaguing your home countries.”

“Christians and Yazidis were forcibly removed from their homes after have had to give up everything to save their lives and not deny the faith. It seems as if these people do not want us to be Christians,” said the Pope.

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