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January 28, 2017

Christians assess damage on Iraq's Nineveh plain, ravaged by ISIS

An Iraqi soldier stands guard during Christmas celebrations at the al-Tahira al-Kubra church in al-Hamdaniya, east of Mosul, Dec. 25, 2016.

ERBIL, Iraq – “I don't understand how people can harm each other so much,” sighs security guard Louis Petrus. Petrus recently returned to his hometown for the first time: the Christian city of Qaraqosh, near Mosul, which he had to flee in August 2014, when Islamic State captured the largest Christian city on the Nineveh plain.

Published in International
January 3, 2017

What Christians are finding as they return to the Nineveh Plain

Christians returning to the Nineveh Plain around Mosul, Iraq have found only destruction and betrayal.

MOSUL, Iraq – As villages on Iraq’s Nineveh Plain are liberated from Islamic State forces, the Christians who lived there have returned, only to find destruction and betrayal.

Published in International
November 22, 2016

Christianity returns to the towns of Iraq's Nineveh Plain

An Iraqi soldier guards St. Barbara Church Oct. 30 after it was recaptured from Islamic State militants in Qaraqosh. Similarly, in the town of Bashiqa, north of Mosul, the Mar Korkeis church was reopened after two years under Islamic State control.

MOSUL, IRAQ – Two years after the sound of church bells was replaced by the sound of explosives in Bashiqa, Iraq, just north of Mosul, Christians are again celebrating Mass after forcing the Islamic State out of their homeland.

Published in International