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Iraq urges Christians driven out by ISIS to return as new cathedral opens
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Iraq opened its first Egyptian Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Baghdad, the Cathedral of the Virgin Mary, St. Paul the Anchorite and St. Anthony the Great, and officials used the ceremony to urge Christians driven out by ISIS and later violence to come home. Karim Hammadi of the Iraqi Media Network said “Iraq is safe and needs them,” and Chaldean Catholic lawmaker Kaldo Oghanna called for “the diaspora Christians to return.” Prime Minister Ali Faleh Al-Zaidi called the country's diversity a gift against intolerance.
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