Estimated at 1.5 million in the early 2000s, Christians in Iraq are today less than 400,000. Ostracized for decades, this religious minority had to resolve to a new exodus with the arrival of the Islamic State group. in 2014.
At that time, many Christians fled the persecution of the jihadists and took refuge in Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, more precisely in the district of Ainkawa.
A few years ago, Ainkawa was still just a village, but as crises followed one another in Iraq, many Christians settled there.
Ainkawa then became a full-fledged district of Erbil, a kind of Christian ghetto at the gates of this city, where our correspondent, Lucile Wassermann went.
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