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Prince of Wales "heartbroken" for Christians in Iraq

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The Prince of Wales has written an impassioned letter to the Christians in Iraq, expressing his heartbreak at their "truly unbearable and barbaric persecution" at the hands of Jihadists.

He described the atrocities by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) as “diabolic evil” and spoke of his “fervent hope and prayer” for those suffering in the region.

The Prince’s remarks came in a personal letter to Archbishop Louis Sako, the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, the head of the Caldean Catholic Church which stretches across Iraq and Syria and other parts of the region.

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