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Iraq patriarch looks to life after war with IS

As Iraq emerges from more than three years of war with the Islamic State group, battling an extremist “mentality” will be the key to peaceful coexistence among the country’s religious and ethnic groups, the top Chaldean Catholic Church official tells The Associated Press. Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, leader of the Iraq-based church, also appealed for […]

Sinan Salaheddin writes for AP:

As Iraq emerges from more than three years of war with the Islamic State group, battling an extremist “mentality” will be the key to peaceful coexistence among the country’s religious and ethnic groups, the top Chaldean Catholic Church official tells The Associated Press.

Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, leader of the Iraq-based church, also appealed for an end to discrimination against Christians in Iraq and the reconstruction of Christian areas in the country’s north left in ruins by the war to enable Christian families to return.