This is the end of the line for the Mandaeans in Iraq. As pacifists they are forbidden from carrying weapons or creating a militia and the Iraqi government is incapable of protecting anyone. We have done an amazing job helping Mandaeans, but without P2 immigration status with the UNHCR, the individual process has been painfully slow for these families. They pray to not endure another week, let alone another year while under the barbaric and sickening threat from ISIS. Other minorities that we have lived peacefully with are also under threat, but here is our distinction: we are ten times smaller than the next biggest ethnoreligious minority, at only 50,000 globally and only 1,500 are left in Iraq. We cannot weather another storm; if we lose any families, it's a huge blow to our small faith.



