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KPIX 60 Minutes September 14, 2015

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As we first reported in march, much of what took almost 2,000 years to build was lost in a matter of months. chanting logan on the side of a mountain overlooking the Nineveh Plains of ancient mesopotamia is the monastery of st. Matthew. Its one of the oldest on earth. The voices of its monks have echoed here since the fourth century, uttering prayers that have not changed. You do the service in aramaic. Joseph ibrahim yes. Logan . Which was the language of jesus. Ibrahim yes. Logan are you among the last people on earth to speak this language . Ibrahim we think so, because we kept this language through the language of prayers. Logan prayers through centuries of persecution. Father Joseph Ibrahim is one of only seven monks left here. He told us the monastery was founded in 363, and has survived the persian and ottoman empires, mongol invaders, and kurdish conquests. Today, its threatened by the Islamic State, whose fighters advanced towards st. Matthews gates shortly after taking mosul last summer. Kurdish soldiers pushed them back to this village, where their flag still flies only four miles from the monastery. What are you most afraid of . Ibrahim unknown future. Logan the unknown future . Ibrahim yes. Logan what do you think is going to happen . Ibrahim we dont know exactly, but we are expecting the worse. Logan the road from st. Matthews brings you to the frontline, just six miles from the outskirts of mosul. Every town and village between here and the occupied city is in the hands of the Islamic State. And now, were told, for the first time in nearly 2,000 years, there are no christians left inside mosul. Nicodemus sharaf they take everything from us, but they cannot take the god from our hearts. They cannot. Logan Nicodemus Sharaf is the archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church in mosul, one of about 10,000 christians who fled the city. We found him living as a refugee in the kurdish capital, erbil. He said isis fighters were already inside mosul when he escaped. Sharaf i didnt have any time to take anything. I was told i had five minutes to go. Just i take five books. They are very old. Logan among them, this aramaic manuscript. He told us it was written 500 years ago, and said he left behind hundreds more older than this one, christian relics that may never be recovered. Sharaf i think they burn all the books. And we have books from the First Century of the christianity. Logan you had from the First Century. Sharaf of the christianity. When i remember this, i cannot. From the beginning the christianity, this is the first time we cannot pray in our churches. Logan as it seeks to erase christianity from the landscape, the Islamic State allows no christian symbols. It released these photographs, which show the desecration of the church at what is believed to be the monastery of mar gorgis, just north of mosul. And nothing is sacred. Isis blew up this mosque shortly after taking control here. Its a site holy to both christians and muslims because the Old Testament prophet jonah was said to be buried inside. Just like the nazis marked the property of jews, Christian Homes in mosul have been marked with this red symbol. Its the arabic letter n for nasara, an early islamic term for christians. When isis puts it on your home, you either convert to islam, pay an extortion tax, or face the sword. Issah al qurain is one of tens of thousands who had to make that choice. He was at home with his family in the Christian Village where hed lived all his life when isis fighters came looking for him. He told us the fighters first took all his money, then his wife and children. They were telling you convert, convert, convert . Issah al qurain translated yes, convert. In the beginning, i refused. I told them i was christian, and i had my religion and they had their religion. But they told me, if you dont convert, we will kill you and take your wife and children. Logan he agreed and was taken to mosul to convert, where he was reunited with his family. Soon, isis fighters were asking about his young daughter, and he told us that frightened him more than anything. Al qurain they said to me that, in islam, the sharia says girls that are ten years old should get married. As soon as they left, my wife and i shut the door. We looked at each other and she started to cry and pray. We were so scared they were going to take our daughter from us. Logan they escaped in the back of a taxi. Issah says they talked their way through three isis checkpoints and traveled for over four hours on back roads to erbil where, like archbishop sharaf, they now live as refugees. Some 30,000 christians were living in erbil before this crisis, most of them chaldean catholics, who follow their own ancient traditions but recognize the authority of the pope. Bashar warda is the archbishop of this diocese. He says his congregation has swelled by more than 60,000 refugees as kurdistan, the semi autonomous region in the north of iraq, has become a safe haven for christians fleeing the Islamic State. This is one of the oldest Christian Communities in the world, thousands of years old. Bashar warda 2,000 years old, almost. Logan and when you look at it today, where is that Christian Community here . Warda disappearing. Its dying. Logan archbishop warda said christians in iraq, ironically, felt safer under saddam hussein. Democracy brought a new wave of persecution and prompted a mass exodus of christians. When the u. S. Withdrew completely in 2011, archbishop warda says the situation became even worse because iraqs new leaders were incapable of governing without help. Warda i think american support was needed, needed forcefully. You cannot leave the country like this and tell them, well, weve liberated you. We cannot do the job for you and we are walking away. And this is your country, rule it. Logan so, in your view, walking away in 2011 was just as damaging to iraq as 2003 when the u. S. Invaded . Warda yes. Its not blaming, but thats the reality. This is not what you came for in 2003. The 4,000 sacrifices of the american soldiers was not meant to come to this day. Logan christianity in iraq was born in the towns and villages of the Nineveh Plains, like this one called tel isqof, which lies less than 20 miles north of mosul. Christians have lived here and walked these streets for over a thousand years. But today, theres no one. Theyre all gone, driven out by fear. And one of the most striking things you notice is the silence. Every road was deserted, houses and possessions abandoned, others destroyed. Tel isqof had always been a refuge for Iraqs Christians, until last year when isis moved in and 7,000 christians fled. Three weeks later, kurdish soldiers pushed the terrorists out. But father rony hana said isis instilled such fear here that his people wont come back. He worries, too, but returns for a few hours every morning to check on his church, which he said isis fighters used as their base. He told us one of them called him on his cell phone to ask how to operate the church generator. They really did, they asked you that . And you told them . I guided them to where it was located around the corner from here, he told us, and explained how to turn it on. The last thing i said was to please take care of the church, and they just hung up. The cleansing of Iraqs Christians from this land is something archbishop sharaf believes ought to be generating a much louder cry of outrage from his muslim friends and neighbors. Sharaf speak up. Of course, there is good people of the islam people. There is not all muslim people they are bad, i believe. But where is the good people . Where is their voice . Nothing. Few. Few. Logan with everything that has happened here to the christians, what has been lost . Sharaf they lost our dignity here. Im sorry to say that. We dont have dignity in our country, in our land. Logan most everyone we met welcomed u. S. Led air strikes here, but they also said it is not nearly enough. Taking back mosul, a city of about 1. 5 million people, is widely understood to be a difficult prospect. Archbishop warda believes the iraqi army cant do it alone, and as long as the city remains in the hands of isis who he refers to as daesh, its arabic name no christians will be going home. Warda for me, daesh is a cancer. Its a disease. So, sometimes, you take some hard measures, unfortunate measures to deal and to treat this cancer. Logan so you want to see a Major Military offensive to retake mosul . Warda yeah, to get iraq to its normal situation. Logan and by getting iraq to its normal situation, you mean restoring the border between iraq and syria . Warda yes. Logan getting rid of daesh, the Islamic State . Warda exactly. Logan defeating them militarily . Warda please god. Logan the Christian Community hastily set up militias to guard their deserted villages and homes along the frontline, and theyre getting a little help. We were surprised to come across american brett felton, a christian veteran of the iraq war, who traveled on his own from detroit to train christian volunteers. And this man, khamis, who said he came from australia, driven to defend the land where he was born. What do you think the Islamic State intends to do with the christians here . Khamis to wipe them out, to be nothing. No place left that bears the name of christian or christianity. Logan christians in the Frontier Town of al qosh live in the shadow of the Islamic State. 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Ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. Get started for free at ancestry. Com. Pelley it happened in less than a minute three students were shot to death, and three more wounded in a high school outside cleveland. An assistant football coach named frank hall helped stop the shooting. When we first reported this story last year, hall told us that he wished there was no reason to know his name or, god forbid, think of him as a hero. Hes the type youd call a regular guy. On february 27, 2012, hall was doing what he always did. With hugs and fist bumps, he kept order among 100 kids gathering in the School Cafeteria before class. Then, hall was confronted by a question no one can truly answer what would you do at the sound of gunfire . No time to think, theres only the reflex of character. This is the story of a fraction of a second, and the months of consequences that follow. So much time has passed, and still no one in chardon, ohio, knows why it happened. In february 2012, theyd been marking the inches of lake erie snow and counting the days till the tapping of the maples. Forbes had said that this was the fourth best place in america to raise a family, and many of the 5,000 in chardon credited the high school, ranked excellent 13 years in a row. 911. What is your emergency . This is Chardon High School calling. We need assistance right now. Theres a student with a gun. Pelley at 7 35, the call came from the principals office. There, teacher tim armelli heard shots down the hall. Tim armelli you knew that the shooting was what it was. Youre. Your heads telling you theres shots; your hearts not believing it. You. You freeze for a moment. You dont think youre going to see your wife or kids again. Pelley you got onto the school p. A. And said what . Armelli lockdown. Teachers, go to lockdown. Pelley in the cafeteria, through the door on the left, a 17yearold boy who went by the initials t. J. Was shooting to kill. Hed put ten rounds in his gun and six letters across his shirt killer, it said. Frank hall i saw a young man firing into a crowd. I just stood up, shoved my table out of the way and started after him. Pelley its tough even now for frank hall to speak of it. But with the support of his wife, he told us what happened when he charged at the boy with the gun. Hall he raises his weapon at me, i jumped behind a pepsi machine. I hear another fire. Pelley that bullet missed hall, so he kept chasing the student down the corridor. Hall and he sees me and he takes off down the hallway, so i chase after him again screaming, yelling. Kids still running. And i get to within like six, seven, eight feet of him, and there was a young man at the end of the hallway right in front of the doors, nick walczak, and t. J. Shoots him in the back. Nick walczak i was shot once in the spine. That paralyzed me. And thats when i went down. Pelley what do you remember seeing or hearing of coach hall in those moments . Walczak he said. As hes running by me, he said hang tight. Ill be back. Pelley pursued by hall, the shooter ran without loading the second magazine that he carried with ten more rounds. Hall then, i chased t. J. Out the doors and i lose him in the parking lot and. 47 seconds from the first shot till he exited the doors, 47 seconds. Pelley hall ran back to the cafeteria, where daniel parmertor, demetrius hewlin, and russell k

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