BEIRUT: Visiting the Kurdish capital Irbil, Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai called Wednesday on the international community to help Iraq’s minorities, asking the country’s Christians to stick to their roots and not leave the country.

“Those who want to help the Christian people in the region can come help them in their own land by creating jobs and building hospitals and schools,” Rai said in press conference after touring the Kurdish capital. “Not by calling on them to emigrate.” 

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