Think of all the good holidays throughout the year that we in the West are able to celebrate in comfortable surroundings and then think of what these people have to go through.
Christmas in an Iraqi refugee camp: Moving pictures show nativity scene set up by some of the thousands of Christians fleeing ISIS
PUBLISHED: 10:12 EST, 13 December 2014 | UPDATED: 10:38 EST, 13 December 2014
These beautiful pictures of Christmas prayers and glowing nativity scenes hide a much darker reality.
Hundreds of Iraqi Christians, who now occupy these makeshift tents in Erbil, were forced to abandon their homes to escape the wrath of Islamic State fighters.
They are safe from immediate danger in this camp built around the Mazar Mar Eillia Catholic Church in Ankawa.
But dropping temperatures pose a serious threat to those who hurriedly left their homes without their possessions or winter clothes.
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Christmas in an Iraqi refugee camp Incredible pictures show nativity scene and festive tree set up by some of the thousands of Christians fleeing from ISIS in Middle East Daily Mail Online
Christmas in an Iraqi refugee camp: Moving pictures show nativity scene set up by some of the thousands of Christians fleeing ISIS
- Hundreds of displaced Iraqis, forced to evacuate their towns, will celebrate Christmas in this refugee camp in Erbil
- They represent a tiny fraction of over three million Iraqi people 'internally displaced' - many of them in Kurdistan
- The autonomous region in Northern Iraq is being pushed to breaking point by sheer number of new settlers
- Families are safe, for now, from any immediate danger but dropping temperatures pose another serious threat
PUBLISHED: 10:12 EST, 13 December 2014 | UPDATED: 10:38 EST, 13 December 2014
These beautiful pictures of Christmas prayers and glowing nativity scenes hide a much darker reality.
Hundreds of Iraqi Christians, who now occupy these makeshift tents in Erbil, were forced to abandon their homes to escape the wrath of Islamic State fighters.
They are safe from immediate danger in this camp built around the Mazar Mar Eillia Catholic Church in Ankawa.
But dropping temperatures pose a serious threat to those who hurriedly left their homes without their possessions or winter clothes.
Read more:
Christmas in an Iraqi refugee camp Incredible pictures show nativity scene and festive tree set up by some of the thousands of Christians fleeing from ISIS in Middle East Daily Mail Online
