From The BBC-Christians in Iraq "do not have much time left" without direct military action on the ground, the Archbishop of Irbil has told UK peers and MPs.
Archbishop Bashar Warda said air strikes were "not enough" to defeat Islamic State militants and "begged" for Western troops to be deployed.
He said Iraq's Christian population was declining and that he would speak to the UK government about further action.
The government has said efforts to defeat IS were "comprehensive".
During a visit to London, Archbishop Warda, of the Catholic Chaldean Church, told the Westminster gathering Iraq's Christian communities had fallen "dramatically" over the last decade - from 1.4 million during the rule of Saddam Hussein.
Tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians and Yazidis fled their homes in the summer of 2014 following warnings from IS militants to renounce their faith or face death.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31303952
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