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By Naif Ramadhan
Posted 2020-12-24 17:40 GMT
Batnaya, North Iraq Churches still lie in ruin six years after the Islamic State (ISIS) swept through the Nineveh Plains, with others slowly rebuilt by Christians returning to the remains of their villages.
The St Qaryaqous Chaldean Church in Batnaya, 20 kilometers north of Mosul, has not been rebuilt due to a lack of aid.
Najib Batrs grandfather built the church in 1944. At least 70 percent is destroyed. We can t rebuild it. It is still in ruins. We ask for someone to rebuild it, be it the international NGOs or the central government, he said.