The report also states that the region has absorbed a significant number of Christian internally displaced persons (IDPs) moving from the south. placing an economic burden in the area. They are fleeing because they are being threatened and murdered in their home communities. Their priests are being executed. their churches burned. and their nuns threatened. In February of this year. Archbishop Paulos Rahho was abducted and murdered in Mosul. While Assyrians only represented 5 percent of the total Iraqi population before the war. according to the United Nations today they comprise as much as 40 percent of the growing Iraqi refugees who have fled for their lives to Syria. Jordan. Lebanon. and Turkey.
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