Nineveh Plain
Christian heritage found ransacked in monastery retaken from Islamic State
By Jerome Socolovsky — November 21, 2016
KHIDIR ILYAS, Iraq, (Reuters) - The history pages of Iraq's Christian community lie in charred fragments on the floor of a fourth-century monastery near Mosul which Islamic State militants ransacked during a two-year occupation that ended over the weekend.
Letter from Irbil: ‘As sisters, we are worried about the legacy of our land’
By guest — November 1, 2016
(RNS) 'On the one hand, we are grateful that our towns are eventually being recaptured. On the other hand, it is heartbreaking to see the damage that ISIS had caused,' write the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena.
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