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Christian woman freed from Islamic State after 3 years in captivity

August 31, 2017 Iraq Iraq, Islamic State, Nineveh Plains, Qaraqosh

...between members”. The Nineveh Plain Protection Units were set up in 2014 by the Assyrian Democratic Movement after IS’s invasion of Mosul and surrounding areas. They consist of local inhabitants....

Archbishop fears persistence of IS ideology despite military defeat

August 4, 2017 Iraq Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Peshmerga

...scared to return to their homes in Mosul because levels of support for IS’s ideology in Mosul remained high. “Christians affected by the occupation of ISIS are not able to...

US government warned of persistent ‘ideology of hatred’ in Saudi textbooks

July 28, 2017 Saudi Arabia Education, Middle East, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, USA

The Saudi government is failing to reform textbooks that direct violence and hatred to other religious groups including converts to Christianity and Jews. (Photo: Open Doors International)

...Mosul during its occupation by the Islamic State group, and said that senior US Treasury counter-terrorism officials had described the Wahhabi Islam promoted in the textbooks as “kindling for Bin...

More Christian than Muslim refugees in US under Trump, but fewer overall

July 14, 2017 Chaldeans, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Donald Trump, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Migrants, Mike Pence, Refugees, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, USA, Yemen

...region in northern Iraq, attended by Christians who’d fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. “Every reception policy that discriminates the persecuted and suffering on religious grounds...

Kurdish government opens church for refugees who fled IS

July 12, 2017 Iraq Ankawa, Bashar Warda, Chaldeans, Islamic State, Kurds, Peshmerga

...Christians in the semi-autonomous region. Tens of thousands of Yazidis, Christians, Shabak, Turkmen and Shia Muslims arrived in 2014 after Islamic State forced them out of Mosul and towns across...

Iraq: Karamles residents face fears as they begin rebuilding

June 19, 2017 Iraq Islamic State, Karamles, Mosul

Father Thabet looks at remains of what was once the home he grew up in. (Photo: Open Doors International)

...stronghold in the city of Mosul, the residents of Karamles, a town 30km to the east which was liberated six months ago, are returning to rebuild their homes. The government...

Iraq Christians returning home face many hurdles

June 14, 2017 Iraq Bashar Warda, Islamic State, Middle East, Mosul, Nineveh Plains

...in the region after IS forces were driven out of the Nineveh Plains in October 2016. (Photo: Open Doors) Three years since the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was taken...

Abducted Christina reunited with her parents after 3 years

June 9, 2017 Iraq Christina Abada, Erbil, IDPs, Islamic State, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Qaraqosh, Refugees, Trauma

Five-year-old Christina, shortly after she was reunited with her family, including mother Ayda in the back. (Twitter @thestevennabil)

...pic.twitter.com/xLw9yfaMnz — Steven nabil (@thestevennabil) June 9, 2017 Background Christina was abducted in August 2014, when IS overran Iraq’s second city, Mosul, and then swept into the Christian city of...

Half of Syria and Iraq’s Christians have left since 2011, says report

June 6, 2017 Europe, Germany, IDPs, Iraq, Islamic State, Jordan, Lebanon, Migrants, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Refugees, Sweden, Syria, Turkey

...to the day since the Islamic State group took control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, a new report estimates that – of their Christian populations – 50% have left...

Muslims clean up Mosul monastery desecrated by IS

May 31, 2017 Iraq Islamic State, Mosul

...wanted to show that “Mosul is yours as it’s ours” and “our differences are our strength”, the UK’s Metro newspaper reported. Mosul is set to be liberated completely by the...

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