Survivors’ stories: life after Islamic State violence
...out of his house in Mosul, the city in northern Iraq now controlled by IS. He says living in a displacement camp has been hard, but he found a job...
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Iraqi MPs reject ‘safe areas’ for Christians
...at the Washington D.C.-based Hudson Institute, meanwhile warned that the final drive to dislodge IS from Iraq’s second city of Mosul will create a surge of thousands fleeing the battle...
When Mosul is freed, Christians may face a new crisis
Displaced Iraqi Christians in Kurdistan hung “Liberate Mosul” signs in August. Photo courtesy of Open Doors The eventual liberation of Mosul, Iraq, from the so-called Islamic State will end one...
‘Face of displaced Iraqi Christians’ is ordained
...Liberate Mosul campaign to both raise awareness and, he said, act as “a motivator for us to not just sit around and be sad but to become active and start...
What does the inside of a refugee camp in Lebanon look like?
...city, Mosul, currently occupied by IS, was home to one of the largest Christian communities in the Middle East at the time of the 2003 US invasion. Across the river...
Autonomous Nineveh ‘would preserve Christians and secure West’s interests’
...that, according to local sources it consulted, these conflicts over future plans are contributing to delaying military operations – which have previously been announced – for the liberation of Mosul...
‘Part of our heart is missing’: parents of girl held by IS
...snatched the child out of her arms and gave the crying girl to a bearded fighter. In July 2014, IS jihadists had overrun Iraq’s second city, Mosul, then swept into...
‘ISIS on a mission to exterminate Christians’
...only the leadership. He said this was one of the group’s greatest strengths – its ability to attract people without developing more than a “tokenistic” theology. ‘Mosul will be held...
Frontier town sees first Communion despite IS
A Christian town some 50km north of the Islamic State’s Iraq stronghold of Mosul has celebrated its first Communion Mass, completing the initiation of a hundred boys and girls in...
Iraq: 2 years since Nineveh fell to IS, displaced Christians pray for ‘liberation’
...towns surrounding Mosul, such as Qaraqosh. In the Karamles camp (named after a village still occupied by IS) in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, just 50 miles from Mosul,...