Iraqi patriarch: Fast track for Christian refugees will fuel tensions
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
1.30.2017 11:42 AM ET
CNS photo/Regis Duvignau, Reuters
Crew members are silhouetted in front of an Iran Air poster in Colomiers, France, Jan. 11. Giving priority to Christian refugees for settlement programs would be "a trap" that discriminates and fuels religious tensions in the Middle East, said Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad. (CNS photo/Regis Duvignau, Reuters) See TRUMP-BAN-REACTION Jan. 30, 2017.
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