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“When everybody is building walls, the church can build bridges”

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30 January 2017 During the visit to Iraq on 20-24 January, a delegation of church leaders shared the findings and recommendations of a recent study exploring the specific needs of displaced people in Iraq and Syria. The delegation also learned a lot about the current situation and challenges from representatives of local faith communities in Iraq, heads of the country’s Christian churches and Christian young people. Father Emanuel Youkhana, the archimandrite of the Church of the East who coordinates a massive humanitarian program in Duhok, said the delegation’s visit served “to let those who suffer here know that they are...

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