Pretty good comparison.
I can see the Patriarch’s point. If they all flee, then the church in that country is going to wither and die. Yet, if they stay, they will be killed anyway.
I think, in that circumstance, if you don’t have any strength to defend yourselves, then your best option is to preserve the church in exile until it is safer to return.
Agreed.
Chaldeans in this country are working on several generations themselves and most of them have no ties to the mideast. They started appearing in the Detroit area in the late 1800s and Iraq is a foreign country to many of them.