Rome, Italy, Nov 8, 2007 / 08:35 am
The Latin Rite Archbishop of Baghdad, Jean Benjamin Seleiman, said this week that of 700,000 Christians who were living in Iraq up until 2003, more than half have been forced by the violence to leave the country and take refuge in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
The archbishop also explained that Christians live amidst fear but that they are encouraged by ecumenical solidarity. He also warned that in regions like Bassora and Mosul, the faithful live with “daily terror.”