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The leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Cardinal Louis Raphael I Sako, said that some of the practices in Iraq today "violate the rights of Christians to the core," including the imposition of sharia "on everybody." He further said that in Muslim-dominant Iraq he is "treated as a second-class citizen."
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The families fled from western Iraq to Baghdad in 2014, amid the advance of the Islamic State; they now face eviction to make way for a shopping center.