Iraq: More than 700 Christian families flee ISIS to Baghdad

More than 700 Christian families from Mosul and the Nineveh Plain are now lliving as refugees in makeshift housing and temporary accommodation in Baghdad, after being forced to leave their homes by Islamic State. Raad Jalil Kajaji, head of the finance Office for Christians, Yazidis, Sabean and Mandaeans, said the number of Christian refugees arriving in the capital continues to increase day by day,. He called for and international relief organizations to support the local authorities more vigorously in addressing this humanitarian emergency.

Jalil, who on 27 October, had a long conversation with the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans Louis Raphael I at the headquarters of the Patriarchate, said that there is lack of government funds. He said the living conditions of the refugees who are being housed in schools, churches and places of Christian associations - is bound to get worse with the arrival of the winter season.

According to sources of the Ministry of migration and refugees, more than 19,0000 displaced families from northern Iraq have found shelter in Baghdad.

Source: Fides