The Knights of Columbus are helping to rebuild the neighboring town of Karamdes in cooperation with the Archdiocese of Erbil in Kurdistan, which has been the temporary home to most of the Christians who fled the so-called Islamic State (ISIS). In many ways, if these Christian-majority towns do not take on renewed lives, one of ISIS’s stated goals, to exterminate Christianity, will have been successful, at least in those locales.
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You too can save Iraqi Christians
Katherine Jean Lopez, NRO
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
The Knights of Columbus are helping to rebuild the neighboring town of Karamdes in cooperation with the Archdiocese of Erbil in Kurdistan, which has been the temporary home to most of the Christians who fled the so-called Islamic State (ISIS). In many ways, if these Christian-majority towns do not take on renewed lives, one of ISIS’s stated goals, to exterminate Christianity, will have been successful, at least in those locales.