Iraqi lawmakers reject bill that would permit reconversion of Christian children
November 04, 2015
In a 131-57 vote, Iraq’s parliament has rejected a bill that would have permitted children of Christian converts to Islam to become Christians again, according to an AsiaNews report.
Under Iraqi law, if one parent converts to Islam, all of the children automatically become Muslim. The bill would have permitted Christian children in this situation to reconvert to Christianity at the age of 18, as was once permitted in Iraq and still is permitted in the autonomous region of Kurdistan.
“Such a mentality has nothing that is human,” said Bishop Rabban Al-Qas, the Chaldean Catholic bishop of Amadiyah and Zaku. “Not only have they taken homes and property from Christians, but now they also want to take their willpower, hope, freedom of religion and freedom to choose for the future.”
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