The head of Iraq's largest church said on Sunday that Islamic State militants who drove Christians out of Mosul were worse than Mongol leader Genghis Khan and his grandson Hulagu who ransacked medieval Baghdad.
Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako led a wave of condemnation for the Sunni Islamists who demanded Christians either convert, submit to their radical rule and pay a religious levy or face death by the sword.
At the Vatican, Pope Francis decried what he said was the persecution of Christians in the birthplace of their faith, while U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the Islamic State's actions could constitute a crime against humanity. Keep reading
See also
Iraq Ultimatum to Mosul Christians: Leave or Die
ISIS Forces Last Iraqi Christians to Flee Mosul
Mosul empty of Christians 'for the first time in history'
Extremists Leave A Violent Message In A Small Iraqi Town
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