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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SERENE ASSIR - Iraqi Christian children, who fled with their families the violence in Iraq's largest Christian town of Qaraqosh, pose in a room of Ainkawa's Saint Joseph church on August 12, 2014 on the outskirts of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Iraqi Christians who fled a jihadist onslaught and are packed several families to a room in the church have lost hope in their country and long to emigrate. AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SERENE ASSIR - Iraqi Christian children, who fled with their families the violence in Iraq's largest Christian town of Qaraqosh, pose in a room of Ainkawa's Saint Joseph church on August 12, 2014 on the outskirts of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Iraqi Christians who fled a jihadist onslaught and are packed several families to a room in the church have lost hope in their country and long to emigrate.  AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED        (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)