Baghdad, Iraq — Iraqi Christians fled their homes the weekend of April 14 after armed Sunni extremists threatened to kill them if they did not convert to Islam within 24 hours, Christian sources said.
Six Christian families from the Mualimien neighborhood of Baghdad’s Dora district have relocated to a church elsewhere in the city, said a Baghdad source who requested that the families’ location and identity remain anonymous. Armed Sunnis told the families April 14 that an amir (independent Muslim prince or ruler) had issued a fatwa against Dora’s Christians.
"They called the Christians infidels and told them, ‘If you don’t convert to Islam or leave your homes in 24 hours, we will kill you,’" the source told Compass Direct news service after speaking with a member of the church helping the displaced Christians.
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