Posted on 12/10/2015 8:09:29 AM PST by marshmallow
A new Catholic university has opened in Erbil, an Iraqi city of 1.5 million that is capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan.
Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda said in July that the university, which will welcome 250 students per year, is "a way of fighting back against Daesh [the Islamic State] and saying we [Christians] are not going to go away."
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Correction:
"A new Catholic university has opened in Erbil, a city of 1.5 million that is the Capital of Kurdistan."
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