Iraqi Muslims are rebuilding ISIS-damaged churches to bring back Christians

Written By Shared Sacred Sites Shared Sacred Sites Team

Before Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, was liberated from the Islamic State group, some Christians felt that even without the presence of ISIS, they could never go back. Even without the formal rule of the jihadist organization that had set itself up as a caliphate, an Islamist ideology would perdure in the city, making it impossible for Christians to live there, they felt.

Now there are signs that those fears are unfounded, and it is young people — Christians and Muslims — who seem to be offering hope for a new way forward…
See more at: https://aleteia.org/2020/11/05/iraqi-muslims-are-rebuilding-isis-damaged-churches-to-bring-back-christians/

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