Iraqi bishop laments conditions in refugee camps
July 18, 2016
In an interview with a California-based magazine, an Iraqi bishop deplored the situation of Christians who fled the Islamic State and now live in refugee camps.
“The situation for these refugees is very, very bad,” said Bishop Shlemon Warduni, a curial bishop of the Chaldean Catholic patriarchate and, since May, apostolic administrator of the Chaldean eparchy of San Diego. “At home in Iraq, they had homes. They had jobs. But now they have almost nothing.”
He added:
Presidents, ministries, they talk, but in reality what have they done? Those whom made it out of Iraq [to refugee camps], they don’t even give them exit visas; some have no food. For this I cry, I supplicate, I pray for everyone to do something.
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