Iraqi Archbishop: ‘We Pray That President Trump Will Help Us. Without Help We Are Finished’
(CNSNews.com) – The Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Mosul, Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf told Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) this week that without President-elect Donald Trump’s help, Christian families who have escaped ISIS in the Erbil area of the Kurdistan region “are finished.”
Smith traveled to Iraq this week to meet with the families and Christian leaders.
Sharaf, who was the very last bishop [1] to flee ISIS in Mosul in June 2014, told [2] Smith, “So often concern for Christians is minimized. I am so happy, because you are the first American who has come to just ask about the Christians. We pray that President Trump will help us. We are the last people to speak the Aramaic language. Without help, we are finished.”
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