“We do not need your guilt feelings. We need your friendship.”

— Yousif Thomas Mirkis

The Plight of Iraqi Christians https://www.americamagazine.org/issue/519/article/plight-iraqi-christians (February 21, 2005)

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Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Kirkuk Sulaimaniya 1949

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