One year after Islamic State militants drove thousands of Iraqi Christians and Yezidis out of the country, Pope Francis prayed that people around the world would be more attentive to the reality of religious persecution and that “the international community would not stand by mute and unresponsive before such unacceptable crimes.”

Pope condemns silence on Christian persecution
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