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Iraqi Christian Asylum Seeker Dies on Repatriation Flight

Over 100 Christian families in the past few weeks alone have fled, the report concluded


-- Catholic Vote

An 84-year-old Iraqi Christian who waited seven years to have his asylum request granted has died while aboard his repatriation flight from Sweden.

Chaldean Christian Hanna Saka passed away on board his return to Baghdad after “managers of the immigration center in Stockholm rejected him with immediate deportation measures,” according to a recent AsiaNews report. ---More...

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