Take a Look Inside the Shattered Churches of Iraq

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Take a Look Inside the Shattered Churches of Iraq
As the Iraqi army liberates territory from Islamic State jihadists they are uncovering the damage done to Iraq’s ancient Christian heritage.
By Elliot Friedland
Mon, December 5, 2016

The Islamic State has devastated the ancient heritage of Iraq’s Christians. Many churches, some hundreds of years old, were damaged or even destroyed, along with earlier archaeological treasures such as palaces belonging to the Kings of ancient Assyria.

Here is just a snapshot of ISIS crimes against Iraq’s Christian community.


Debris litters the ground of the heavily-damaged Saint John the Baptist church in the Christian town of Qaraqosh, also know as Hamdaniya, some 20 miles east of Mosul, on December 4, 2016, one month after Iraqi forces recaptured it from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists.

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The Islamic State has devastated the ancient heritage of Iraq’s Christians

The Ba'athists have been doing that for a century