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Women light votive candles and pray Sunday service at the Saint Joseph Chaldean Church in Troy, Michigan. Iraqi Christians who came to the United States for work in the auto industry, following the Iran-Iraq war and during the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, have a well-established community in the northern suburbs of Detroit. They are being joined by a new population of Christians who, in Iraq, are being persecuted by Islamic extremists.