Iraqi Christians Suggest Competing Plans For Autonomous Region

As Christians are rapidly leaving Iraq, at least two competing plans have been proposed to protect them and encourage them to remain. Compass Direct News reported last week that some Christians want to cooperate with Kurdish officials to create an autonomous Christian area within the Kurdish federal state. Others want a completely separate federal state for non-Muslim minorities. Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk Luis Sako however says that moves by Christians to obtain their own region might backfire and lead to attempts to drive Christians in other parts of Iraq out to the new region.