(5 Mar 2018) A new primary school financed in part by the Hungarian government, the Hungarian Catholic Church and the Chaldean Catholic Church was opened in the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Irbil on Monday.
Hungarian and Iraqi Kurdish ministers, along with the Chaldean Catholic bishop of Irbil, were present at a ceremony marking the opening.
The school cost a total of 1.4 million US dollars with Hungary paying about half of that sum.
The school is managed by the Chaldean church but it has Muslim students too.
The language of instruction is English.
The Hungarian government has pursued various aid and development activities in Iraq's self-governing Kurdish region, also financing the reconstruction of Telskof, a Christian-majority town north of Mosul that was badly damaged in the fighting between Kurdish forces and Islamic State militants.
Christians once constituted a significant minority in Iraq but since the American invasion their numbers have dwindled as many have immigrated to the West, fleeing religious persecution.
They continue to live in communities on the northern Nineveh plains of Iraq and in the Kurdish region, their educational and social life to a significant extent organised around their churches.
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