Crisis of faith
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🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:20.8 | There is no protection, no supporting, the people being killed, why we are living in our country and we be killed. |
| 0:35.0 | We would like to live. |
| 0:44.4 | The Caldian community is one of the oldest in Iraq. |
| 0:48.3 | This population has literally thousands of years of history, even predating Christianity |
| 0:54.9 | in this specific area of the world. |
| 0:58.1 | And Caldian Christians have been in northern Iraq since the very first days of Christianity. |
| 1:04.8 | And there's a very real possibility that gets more real with every passing year |
| 1:10.4 | that this is the end of their story in this land and in this place. |
| 1:16.0 | Since the US invasion in 2003, Iraq's Christian population has dropped from about 1.2 million |
| 1:24.4 | to under 250,000. That's an 80% drop in under two decades. |
| 1:30.8 | They lost our dignity here. |
| 1:33.6 | I'm sorry to say that. |
| 1:35.8 | We don't have dignity in our country. |
| 1:39.1 | This population is representative of a larger phenomenon that's happening in Iraq, |
| 1:44.4 | happening in the Middle East, which is these religious minorities are getting pushed out of their |
| 1:49.2 | historic homes. And that is a huge threat, the democracy and stable future of these countries in the region. |
| 2:02.6 | Emigreen, you write about religion for the Atlantic. What's the origin story of Iraq's Christians? |
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