Iraqi Christians Formally Petition For Separate Province

ANS reports today that the Assyrian Christian Community in Iraq has presented the government of Iraq with its Formal Request for an Assyrian Province. Reacting to a "brain drain" of almost half of the Christian community, Iraq's foreign minister encouraged the Assyrian community to take this step. He said: "According to the Constitution the Assyrian Christians as the original people of Iraq are entitled under the constitution to a Province of their own." (See prior related posting.)