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‘Endangered with extinction’: Christians remain at risk of eradication in post-ISIS Iraq
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‘Endangered with extinction’: Christians remain at risk of eradication in post-ISIS Iraq
‘Endangered with extinction’: Christians remain at risk of eradication in post-ISIS Iraq A woman and her children attend an Easter ceremony in Saint John s Church (Mar Yohanna) in the nearly deserted predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh on April 16, 2017, near Mosul, Iraq. | Carl Court/Getty Images
Christians in Iraqi territory once held by the Islamic State still face the possibility of extinction as the Christian population there continues to dwindle following the military defeat of the jihadi death cult and the rise of Iran-backed militias in the area.
Still bearing the cross
The country is rebuilding churches, but will anyone fill the pews?
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HINGS ARE moving quickly in Qaraqosh, a sleepy Christian town just outside Mosul in northern Iraq. Pope Francis arrives on March 7th, four years after Islamic State (
IS) was chased out. So local priests have been hurriedly cleaning up al-Tahira, their cathedral and one of Iraq’s largest churches. They have refurbished its burnt interior and repaired most of the masonry that the jihadists used for target practice. When your correspondent visited, five days before the pope, smashed chandeliers and a golden crucifix torn down by