ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdistan Region remains the “first choice” destination of Iraq’s dwindling Christian population, Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of the Chaldean Archdiocese of Erbil told Kurdistan 24 on Thursday. 

Warda made the remark in a discussion about the ongoing dangers faced by Iraqi Christians. He noted that the Kurdistan Region had become a haven for the minority after its population rapidly decreased in post-2003 Iraq. 

Many of these Christians resettled in the villages of Zakho and Duhok and Erbil's Christian-majority Ankawa district, Warda said.

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