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Iraq Christians plan to rebuild town destroyed by ISIS
Christian Times ^ | 07 December 2016 | Jardine Malado

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqichristians

1 posted on 12/16/2016 3:54:56 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

The first thing they should do is build an arms room, rifle range and MOUT site.


2 posted on 12/16/2016 3:57:34 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

bttt and bookmark


3 posted on 12/16/2016 3:59:56 PM PST by ptsal
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To: Lorianne

Biden was right. Iraq should have been a 3-state solution.


4 posted on 12/16/2016 4:01:47 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy is the backup QB to a dictatorship)
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To: Lorianne

I wonder what has happened to Maaloula, Syria? The news media is strangely silent on this historic Christian city.


5 posted on 12/16/2016 4:07:41 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

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.


6 posted on 12/16/2016 4:10:24 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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