Archbishop Warda thanked the Trump administration for Vice President Mike Pence’s remarks in October, promising to protect the Christians in the Middle East and redirect U.S. aid funds directly to the persecuted communities rather than through the United Nations.“It makes an important shift because it showed that the American government considers the situation of those who suffer this persecution at the hands of ISIS to be a priority,” Archbishop Warda said.He went on to recount how his diocese of Erbil became the safe haven for aid that it is today for roughly 15,000 displaced families.
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