NEW YORK – The Rev. Douglas Al-Bazi, a Chaldean Catholic Church parish priest from Erbil, Iraq, took the podium at the United Nations last week to share his experiences while held captive by Islamic State, the horrors he witnessed, and to appeal for help.
"Friends, I am a priest. I cannot abandon hope," he said. "But at the same time I see reality in front of me every day. My people are losing hope – my people are losing hope, and we are disappearing."
