PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic will accept 153 Christian refugees from Iraq who have fled areas controlled by Islamic State, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Monday.
Czech President Milos Zeman, who has long stressed the threat from Islamist militants, said in July he would prefer Christian immigrants as a wave of people, mostly Muslim, moved across southeast Europe northwards.
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