Mosul Christians

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  Iraqi Christians Hold Easter Celebrations At A Church Damaged By ISIS

  Hundreds of Iraqi Christians gathered on Sunday in a church damaged by ISIS north of Mosul, celebrating Easter there for the first time since 2014.

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  ISIS Turned Church In Iraq's Mosul Into Religious Police Base

  The elegant columns of a west Mosul church stand plastered with ISIS propaganda after the terrorists' infamous religious police took over the Christian place of worship.

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  Iraqis Celebrate First Christmas Near Mosul After ISIS Pushed Out

  Several hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to a northern town recently retaken from ISIS, celebrating Christmas for the first time since 2013, their joy tainted with sadness over the desecration of their church.

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  Islamic State Tunnels Below Mosul Are A Hidden And Deadly Danger

  "They're everywhere," said the Iraqi intelligence officer, sweeping his arm from this ancient Christian village toward the horizon. The Iraqi captain was searching for tunnels dug by Islamic State fighters.

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  In Charred Church Near Mosul, Iraqi Christians Pray Once More

  Surrounded by charred walls and in front of a ruined altar, dozens of Iraqi Christians celebrated mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh on Sunday for the first time since it was recaptured from ISIS.

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  Iraq Storms Main Christian Town Near Mosul As Ash Carter Arrives In Baghdad

  The Iraqi army on Saturday stormed a Christian town that had been under control of ISIS since 2014 as part of US-backed operations to clear the entrances to Mosul, the militants' last major city stronghold in Iraq.

• From Exodus to Exodus, Iraq Christians Seek New Home

  Threats by jihadists have sent a fresh wave of Christians fleeing their Iraqi homeland, bustling from exodus to exodus in search of a safe haven to rebuild their lives.

• Iraqi Christians: Threatened and Heading into Exile

  Iraqi Christians are again under threat, with tens of thousands that fled after jihadists seized several northern towns on Thursday just the latest wave to seek shelter elsewhere in the country and abroad.

• France Says Ready to Facilitate Asylum for Iraq's Christians

  France said Monday it was ready to help facilitate asylum for Christians in Iraq displaced by a jihadist onslaught, saying it was "outraged" by their persecution.

• Iraqis Protest Treatment of Minority Christians

  Hundreds of people demonstrated in Arbil, capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, to condemn the forced displacement of Iraqi Christians and call for their protection.

• Iraq Christians Flee Mosul after Militant Threats

  Iraqi Christians have been fleeing from the northern city of Mosul in the wake of threats from Islamic State militants who took the city in a blitz offensive last month.

• Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Denounces Persecution of Iraq Christians

  The world's top Islamic body denounced on Monday the persecution of Christians in Iraq's second city Mosul as an "intolerable crime", and offered to help those displaced by a jihadist offensive.

• Pope Speaks Out for 'Persecuted' Iraqi Christians

  Pope Francis on Sunday said Iraqi Christians were being "persecuted" and "stripped of everything" as hundreds of Christian families fled Mosul after a jihadist ultimatum.

• Ancient Christian Population of Mosul Flees Islamic State

  The ancient Christian community of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had all but fled by Saturday, ending a presence stretching back nearly two millennia after radical Islamists set them a midday deadline to submit to Islamic rule or leave.