Iraqi Christians battle law which forces children to embrace Islam
Iraq’s Christian community is opposing a new law forcing children to become Muslims if their father converts to Islam or their mother marries a Muslim. SOURCES Protestante Digital, Ankawa.com AUTHOR Evangelical Focus ERBIL 16 NOVEMBER 2015 16:49 h Iraqi girl holds a sign: ‘I am Iraqi. I am a Christian.’ Hundreds of members of different religioous communities gathered in a demonstration before the UN mission in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region (KR) in Iraq. They protested against a law recently passed by the National Assembly of Iraq on the National Card. The law reads that “under-age children shall follow the religion of the converted parent to Islam.” The protest was attended by groups belonging to the religious communities of the Yazidis, Mandaeans and Sabean, political activists and representatives of civil society organizations. It was attended by several members of the Iraqi Parliament. According to Ankawa.com, a delegation was welcomed by the UNAMI in Erbil, to whom they submitted a memorandum of protest that was read out in Syriac (Neo-Aramaic), Kurdish, Arabic, and English, demanding the president of Iraq to both disapprove and revoke the law.
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