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A million Iraqi Christians have fled their home country; some found new homes in Michigan

Iraqi Christians mourn following a 2010 attack on a Baghdad church that killed dozens
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Iraqi Christians mourn following a 2010 attack on a Baghdad church that killed dozens

Headlines and images emerging from Iraq have put a spotlight on warfare between Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam.

But these are uneasy times for Christian Iraqis – or Chaldeans.

Since 2003, about a million Iraqi Christians have fled their home country since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein caused other groups to see the Chaldeans as U.S. allies.

Many of those Chaldeans have found new homes in Michigan.

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