Calling on Iraqi Christians to Leave Iraq?

A senior Syriac Orthodox Archbishop in Great Britain has called ln his fellow Iraqi Christians to leave the country, in the wake of the recent church massacre there. Al-Jazeera English has a report here:



It's obviously a regrettable development since so many Iraqi Christians have already departed; these ancient churches held on through the millennia, though the rise of Islam, changes of dynasties, wars and revolutions, but are slowly giving up and emigrating today. One wants to encourage them to stay, but human beings will choose the safety of their families (and the promise of the West) when facing danger. Robert Fisk in The Independent recently surveyed the exodus of Christians not just from Iraq but from Israel and the West Bank, Lebanon and Egypt.