'A New Era': Only Christian In Freshly Inaugurated Kurdistan Government Cabinet Sworn in on Bible That Was Burned By ISIS

Will Maule : Jul 12, 2019
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"It is a challenge that we as Christians, Chaldeans, Assyrians and Syriacs are remaining in the land of our ancestors. The Nineveh Plains, Iraq, Mesopotamia and Kurdistan are our lands, and we are remaining here with the help of our friends in Kurdistan Region." -Ano Jawhar Abdulmasih Abdoka

[Faithwire.com] The sole Christian member of Kurdistan's cabinet has been sworn into his political position on a Bible which was burnt by ISIS militants. (Image source: YouTube/Ano Jawhar Abdulmasih Abdoka/via Faithwire)

On Wednesday, Ano Jawhar Abdulmasih Abdoka took up the position of the minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Transportation and Communications, being sworn by placing his hand on a Bible which was burned by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Nineveh Plains.

Abdoka invoked the use the Holy Book as a gesture of support for the much-persecuted Christian community, who he has vowed to protect in the coming years.

"For me, as a Christian, as the only Christian minister in the new cabinet of the KRG, the Kurdistan Regional Government, I decided to swear on a Biblical manuscript, part of which was burnt by ISIS members in the Nineveh Plains," Abdoka told Rudaw on Tuesday... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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