Iraqi Christian youth leaders from North America are in Israel to witness its diversity, discuss the folly of BDS and harness the inspiration of a shared history in the rebuilding of their homeland after ISIS.
The terrorist attack on Friday in Jerusalem brought back memories of terror in Iraq for Diana, a member of a group of Assyrian youth leaders touring the country. “You go out and you don’t know if you are going to come back safely,” she recalls. “I saw people acting normally as if nothing happened, life goes on, memories came back.”
Her family of Chaldean Catholics left Kirkuk in Iraq in 2008 and moved to Canada, part of a wave of immigration of Christians who have left Iraq since the 1990s. Continue Reading »