“My archdiocese hosts the largest community of displaced Christians in my country, and since 2014, we have received no money from the United States government and no money from the UN. We have hosted and cared for all of these displaced people on our own, with funds we raised privately on our own, nearly all of it from private Christian charitable groups. We are talking about housing, food, medicine, and schools. We have done all of this, and are continuing to do so.”

“I should say also that we are not just taking care of Christian IDPs. We have taken in many Yazidi families in our programs, and our medical clinics serve large numbers of Muslim IDP patients.”

An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country’s borders.   They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the legal definitions of a refugee.^[3]

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