1800-year-old church burns in Mosul, Iraq |
Same Catholic church earlier in the day- at least 10 others have been torched as well. |
A nun leads displaced Iraqi Christians in prayer at a school (now refugee camp) in Erbil. Iraq's Kurdish capital now hosts 100,000+ displaced Christians |
In Mosul, ISIS had marked with a spray-painted ن (the Arabic letter for “N”) all Christian property to be seized after the ultimatum. “N”, or ن, is the first letter of the Arabic word for Christian, “Nasrani” or Nazarene- it has now become the symbol of the oppressed ME Christian minority |
ISIS maniacs captured a 4th-century monastery in northern Iraq and promptly expelled all the monks |
Told 'convert to Islam or face the sword' |
Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldean Catholic Church (and master of understatement) Louis Raphael I Sako: 'We need a peacekeeping mission' |
Two Christian women who were forced to flee advancing Islamic State militants wait in front of tents outside St. Joseph Shrine near Erbil, Iraq |
Irrepressible Iraqi Christian couple who fled Islamic State violence in Mosul at their church wedding ceremony in Erbil, Iraq |
US demonstration near yet-another Obama political fundraiser at Los Altos, CA |
Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem visits Iraqi Christian refugees in Jordan who recently fled Mosul, Iraq |
ISIS lunatics destroyed the tomb of the prophet Jonah... |
Walid Shoebat found a video of the heinous crime:
Displaced Iraqi Christians from Mosul pray at a school acting as a refugee camp in Erbil, Iraq - September 6, 2014 |
Please pray for Iraq and Syria's (residual) Christians... |