Leaders in dilemma over humanitarian crisis in Iraq

From The Church Times-

CHRISTIAN leaders around the world are agonising over how best to respond to the humanitarian catastrophe in northern Iraq, as many thousands of Iraqi Christians, Yazidis, and people of other minority faiths flee for their lives from the advancing Islamic State (IS) forces. The Archbishop of Canterbury has added his voice to those urging the UK Government to allow Iraqi refugees to enter the country.

The crisis in northern Iraq has many layers, of which the refugee emergency is just one. Iraqi Christians who have not been able to seek shelter in the Kurdish region have been subjected to horrendous atrocities at the hands of the jihadists.

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http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2014/15-august/news/world/leaders-in-dilemma-over-humanitarian-crisis-in-iraq