Mother and son escape after 2 years under IS
A Christian mother and son who escaped Islamic State-held Mosul have told their story of kidnap and torture by the extremists. Speaking to the Catholic charity Aid to the Church...
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Iraqi clergy say Prince’s solidarity message needs political backing
...terms. “They must wake up,” he said: “If the Syrian Government wins the war in Aleppo and if the Iraqi Government wins in Mosul, it is not enough. The war...
Sisi under fire after Coptic church attack
...accusations were “ludicrous and insulting”. One commentator suggested the attack had been launched in retaliation to foreign-backed military action against Islamist-jihadist groups in Aleppo and Mosul. Christine Chaillot, author of...
Devastation of liberated Iraqi Christian towns makes return home seem further away than ever
...With IS still a stone’s throw away and the battle for Mosul still raging, not a single Iraqi Christian seriously thinks of moving back already. And even if IS was...
Failure to bring IS to justice shows UN genocide conventions ‘obsolete’
...to flee, have told of atrocities and soldiers liberating IS-held towns and villages around Mosul have found many churches burnt out and badly vandalised. A spokesman for the charity said:...
Celebration for thousands of displaced Iraqis ahead of bittersweet homecoming
...Islamic State (IS) in and around the city of Mosul raised their hopes of returning home after two years in exile. The festival in Erbil last Friday (18 Nov.) was...
Iraqi Christians ask: Where were our Kurdish protectors when IS came?
...Christians and that had taken in Christians fleeing from Mosul. However in early August 2014, when jihadists reached the villages and towns around Mosul and began forcing all non-Sunnis from...
Under the shadow of IS: Iraqi Christians tell of crucifixions, torture, sex slavery
...its researchers he had been unable to flee his home in Batnaya, a village outside Mosul, because he was looking after his disabled father. When the terrorists came to his...
6 steps to being a ‘refugee’ in your own country
...International) The caliphate of the Islamic State was proclaimed in Mosul. In the weeks following, the Nineveh Plains region around Mosul, with its high concentration of Christians, was swiftly taken...
Alqosh, the last Christian town in Iraq, is here to stay
...Iraqi town of Alqosh (50km north of Mosul) is the only Christian stronghold in the country that survived IS. Looking for signs of hope for the future of Christianity in...