Iraq crisis: End 'very near' for Christianity after Isis takeover, says Bishop

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Andrew-White told BBC Radio 4<em style="outline: none;">Today</em> desperate Christians were trapped in the desert or on the streets with nowhere to go.</span></div> <div style="outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Things are so desperate, our people are disappearing," he said. "We have had people massacred, their heads chopped off.</span></div> <div style="outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Are we seeing the end of Christianity? We are committed come what may, we will keep going to the end, but it looks as though the end could be very near."</span></div> <h5 style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: none;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">READ MORE: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/time-runs-out-for-christian-iraq-isis-deadline-passes-with-mass-flight-9617606.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; outline: none;">TIME RUNS OUT FOR CHRISTIAN IRAQ: ISIS DEADLINE PASSES WITH MASS FLIGHT</a> <br style="outline: none;" /><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/conversion-of-iraq-as-isis-drives-christians-out-of-their-homes-the-groups-genocidal-intentions-take-on-horrible-clarity-9617651.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; outline: none;">CONVERSION OF IRAQ: AS ISIS DRIVES CHRISTIANS OUT OF THEIR HOMES, THE GROUP’S GENOCIDAL INTENTIONS TAKE ON HORRIBLE CLARITY</a></span></span></h5> <div style="outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) found that from 14 July homes in Mosul were painted with the letter “N” for Nasrani (the Arabic word for Christian). 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height: 50px; outline: none; width: 50px;" /></span></li> <li class="esi-gallery-thumb" data-thumb="39" style="float: left; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Iraq crisis" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9569652.ece/alternates/w50/24-Iraq2-AP.jpg" style="border: 4px solid rgb(59, 59, 59) !important; height: 50px; outline: none; width: 50px;" /></span></li> <li class="esi-gallery-thumb" data-thumb="40" style="float: left; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Iraq crisis" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9569608.ece/alternates/w50/23-Iraq-AP.jpg" style="border: 4px solid rgb(59, 59, 59) !important; height: 50px; outline: none; width: 50px;" /></span></li> <li class="esi-gallery-thumb" data-thumb="41" style="float: left; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Iraq crisis" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9569619.ece/alternates/w50/23-Iraq2-AP.jpg" style="border: 4px solid rgb(59, 59, 59) !important; height: 50px; outline: none; width: 50px;" /></span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="outline: none;"> </div> <div style="outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The vicar is in London to speak about the crisis and raise awareness of the urgent need to provide more help to the persecuted minority.</span></div> <div style="outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The Christians are in grave danger. There are literally Christians living in the desert and on the street. They have nowhere to go," he told the programme.</span></div> <div style="outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We do not want Britain to forget us. We - and I'm saying 'we' talking like an Iraqi Christian - have always been with the British because they have already been with us.</span></div> <div style="outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Individual churches, individual Christians in Britain, have been a bigger help than anybody around the world."</span></div> <div style="outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Up to a million Christians lived in Iraq prior to the US-led invasion in 2003, with many residing in areas such as Mosul where the communities date back to the first centuries of Christianity.</span></div> <div style="outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are now thought to be fewer than half that number.</span></div> </div> </div> </div>

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