ICC Note:

As Iraqi Christians remain displaced, their supplies are estimated to run out within weeks. The UN has pledged to aid this group that is reported to have dropped from 1.5 million to 200,000 in population within the last 14 years. Claims have been stated that Christians have been discriminated against when appealing to the UN for aid in the past. Perhaps the realization of such Christian losses will persuade the international community to render vital assistance.

3/30/2017 Iraq (Sight) – The supplies sustaining displaced Christians in northern Iraq will run out “within weeks” but UN agencies, accused of ignoring them, have pledged to do better since the advent of US President Donald Trump, the aid co-ordinator for the Catholic archdiocese of Erbil said.

Without significant financial aid and sufficient care, Iraq’s remaining Christians, whose numbers have fallen from 1.5 million in 2003 to around 200,000, “could disappear within the next six to 12 months,” warned US-born Stephen Rasche.

It is vital that the international community view them as “a threatened people on the verge of extinction, the victims of horrific genocide,” he added.

“If we can’t hold this community together over the next six to 12 months, it will all be for nought ,” he said, adding that the Christian presence in Iraq could be reduced to “a custodian population looking after old church properties”.

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