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Iraqi Christians confront two-year trauma with drama

August 5, 2016 Iraq Christina Abada, Erbil, Iraq, Islamic State, Kurds, Lebanon, Qaraqosh

...Qaraqosh, only weeks after about 1,000 Christian families escaped from Mosul, led to the second-largest number of displaced Christians recently – the two combined were the largest sudden displacement of...

‘We have no voice’: Christians in Jordan 2 years after fleeing N. Iraq

August 5, 2016 Iraq Genocide, Islamic State, Jordan, Lebanon, Mosul, Qaraqosh, Refugees, Tel Kaif, Women

Bahar (left), 81, with her daughters, Samira and Bahija. IS beat Bahija and ransacked their home in Tel Kayf, outside Mosul. Bahar’s family shares a one-bedroomed house in Amman with...

2 years after IS drove them from their homes, Iraqi Christians ‘are still in survival mode’, bishop says

August 1, 2016 Iraq Ankawa, Assyrians, Islamic State, Nineveh Plains, Peshmerga, Refugees

...mode. And that’s not a good thing.” Many Assyrian Christians, indigenous to the region, have lived in cities such as Mosul, Iraq, for more than a thousand years. Royel, who...

Iraq’s Mosul Archbishop had to pay ‘protection money’ before his 2008 kidnap and death

July 21, 2016 Iraq Al-Qaeda, Iraq, Islamic State, Jizya, Kidnapping, Mosul, Quran, Saddam Hussein

Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho in March 2008 (World Watch Monitor) The Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, who was murdered by militias in 2008, paid protection money to safeguard his clergy for...

Iraq: Why Najiba can’t go home

June 9, 2016 Iraq Dohuk, Islamic State, Mosul, Tel Skuf

Najiba in her portacabin – her home as an IDP for the last two years, 2016World Watch Monitor Two years on from Mosul falling to Islamic State, World Watch...

Iraq’s Christians ‘could be gone in 5 years’

May 16, 2016 Iraq Assyrians, Chaldeans, Iraq, Islamic State, Jizya, Kirkuk, Middle East, Mosul, Nineveh Plains

...When the jihadists captured Mosul and its surrounding plain in June 2014, they reinstated the traditional Islamic ultimatum to Christians: convert, pay a humbling “protection” tax (jizya), leave or be...

IS destroys Christian landmark in Mosul

April 27, 2016 Iraq Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Qaryatain, Syria

The ‘Islamic State’ has completely destroyed another historic Christian landmark in an area under its control, this time in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Quoting “local residents,” the National...

ISIS burns Christian books

March 14, 2016 Iraq Education, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Sharia

...Mosul”. The Diwan Al-Hisba – or Chamber of Morality Police – was set up by ISIS soon after seizing swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in June 2014, and...

Iraq’s Christian homes ‘grab’ continues

February 24, 2016 Iraq Baghdad, Iraq, Islamic State, Louis Raphael I Sako, Nineveh Plains

...country. “ISIS has displaced 120,000 Christians from Mosul and the Nineveh Plains, destroying monasteries, churches and homes to erase their memory. Now, certain others are taking over Christian properties,” London-based...

IS’s finances lead to auction of Christian homes

January 21, 2016 Iraq Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Nineveh Plains

Islamic State has started to auction Christian properties that it seized in Mosul to ease its deepening financial crisis, according to Arabic media. Its jihadis went on patrol in Iraq’s...

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