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Syndicated NewsIn Biblical Lands of Iraq, Christianity in Peril After ISISBy Moni BasuPosted 2016-11-20 22:58 GMTBartella, Iraq (CNN) -- Behnam Lalo crunches over jagged glass and tiptoes around a fallen altar, burned Bibles and a decapitated porcelain Virgin Mary. He picks up a cross from a heap of rubble and wipes away ashes with his priest's robes.He recognizes the cross immediately; he used it at confirmation ceremonies of so many boys and girls here at St. George Church. He no longer knows where some of them are. Or, if they are still alive.This was a sanctuary once, a place of peace and love in the northern Iraqi town of Bartella, just 13 miles east of Mosul. Now everything is in disarray -- defaced and damaged, covered in soot and remnants of war. In the adjoining cemetery, a rocket launcher points east toward the front lines, and bullet-ridden gravestones stand as silent witnesses to the desecration.A crushing sadness descends on Lalo.QuoteAssyrians celebrated when Iraqi forces liberated towns on the Nineveh Plains, but they fear Islamists will target them again.Continued: http://aina.org/news/20161120175804.htm
Assyrians celebrated when Iraqi forces liberated towns on the Nineveh Plains, but they fear Islamists will target them again.
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