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Christian Survivors of ISIS trapped in limbo, say advocates

survivors trapThey escaped death when ISIS was bent on their destruction, but refugees who fled Iraq and Syria are treated like second-class citizens in Lebanon.

Christians from Iraq and Syria who fled ISIS are now languishing in limbo in Lebanon, where they are living lives of abject poverty and are being denied their basic human rights, say advocates for Middle Eastern Christians. 

Representatives from the Swedish NGO, A Demand for Action (ADFA), are calling on the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to resettle Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac Christians from Iraq and Syria in a country where their human dignity is respected.

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