The exodus of Christians from Irak continues
A significant case has just been reported by the British daily The Telegraph taken up by Assyrian International News Agency. It is the Chaldean Catholic Church of St. Joseph. This large church, built for a thousand worshipers, only received barely 25 during a last Sunday mass.
It was the church of some 5,000 Catholic families: there are only 150 left. All the others went into exile in Europe or the United States.
In fact, Catholicism is practically bloodless in Iraq. Of the roughly 1.5 million worshipers of the Chaldean Church during Saddam Hussein’s time, barely a fifth remain present. All the others have gone into exile.
According to local priesst Nadheer Dako, it is hard to say if there will still be a Catholic community in Irak by 2050.
Source: christianophobie.fr
