Events Detail

The Center for Religious Freedom

Cordially invites you to a luncheon discussion:

Can Iraq's Christian Minorities Survive?

with

His Excellency Jean Benjamin Sleiman

Latin Rite Archbishop of Baghdad

and

The Hon. Pascale Warda

 Iraqi rights activist

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Hudson Institute
Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
1015 Fifteenth Street N.W., 6^th Floor
Washington D.C. 20005  

Archbishop Sleiman is an internationally recognized advocate for Iraq's persecuted Christian population. Hundreds of thousands of Iraq's Christians have fled the country since 2003 in the wake of extremist violence and persecution. Archbishop Sleiman gave a first-hand account of efforts to improve the situation among Iraq's Christians and foster interreligious cooperation.