Posted on 12/16/2016 3:54:56 PM PST by Lorianne
Iraqi Christians are holding on to their faith in God as they plan to revive a town that was ravaged by the Islamic State.
Around 60,000 people fled from the Christian town of Qaraqosh when ISIS took over the region in August 2014. Some of the Iraqi Christians are now seeing the devastation left by the terrorist group after the town was liberated by the Kurdish militia a few weeks ago.
Sister Diana, a Dominican nun, recently paid a visit to the Immaculate Conception Cathedral and saw how the Islamic radicals desecrated the building.
"This is considered the largest church for us in the Middle East. We do all our worship in here. I would say my parents got married here. We had our first Communion here and we used to worship every single day during feast days, Christmas (and) Easter," she told CBN.
(Excerpt) Read more at christiantimes.com ...
The first thing they should do is build an arms room, rifle range and MOUT site.
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Biden was right. Iraq should have been a 3-state solution.
I wonder what has happened to Maaloula, Syria? The news media is strangely silent on this historic Christian city.
Give it to them. Have the U.N. and the Arab League draw up boundaries for Kurdistan + a Christian zone. I’d call the Christian zone Lebanon. Threaten the expulsion of the U.N.
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