Iraqi priest in NZ: ‘Please save our people’

1,687 views · Published 6 December 2018 · 13:44 · Indexed 19 October 2026

Channel: RNZ · 2018 · News & Politics

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Auckland-based Catholic priest Fr Douglas Al-Bazi was tortured by terrorists in Iraq and sheltered thousands of people fleeing from Islamic State. He tells Alex Perrottet his harrowing story and says New Zealand should be taking more refugees suffering genocide in the Middle East.

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