LISTEN NOW! The world has been watching in terror as ISIS has been carrying out its barbaric atrocities throughout Iraq and Syria. As ISIS has taken more and more ground, city after city is abandoned as its residents flee for safety. When ISIS gave them an ultimatum, convert or die, the Christians chose to flee. For the Christians fleeing the city of Qaraqosh, Erbil was the city of refuge. Father Douglas, who is in charge of Church Mar Aliyah, has been like a shepherd, overseeing 560 refugees in Erbil. ABC News’s 20/20 sat down with Father Douglas. Considering Erbil is less than an hour drive from the fighting, the immediate awareness of neighboring security threats came to mind. “How concerned are you about the security situation? How concerned are the people that live here?” Father Douglas responds with a staggering soberness, “Do you think that we have choices? We don’t have choices here. I’m surprised how my people still exist here.” The refugees have been there for 15 months.
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