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Being okay. the democratic forces there, they were able to get through and have easy pass, ingress and egress. that is part of battle success and mission readiness. to have time to be able to do that -- this will be a quick, easy battle but it's definitely one worth fighting. not just because we are trying to make them extinct but also to send a message to those that would seek to join isis. we have now been destroyed your two twin capitals of the caliphate by being able to take raqqa and being able to take mosul. we are trying to stamp out this resistance and having people join them again. >>...

This man came over a week ago and has yet to recover from the shock. i felt pain, he recalls, my eyes filled with tears. this woman is back just for mass and says this is the first time i returned to this church, and then she's at a loss for words. the archbishop has struggled to help residents through the trauma but worries the specter of isis still hovers nearby. we expected everything. theft, damage, and destruction, he tells me. but arson for us is a message, a threatening message that the idea of isis is still here in the region and that's what we

>> and what's so important is that they say, you know, when people, the citizens are ill-informed or uninformed, you no longer have democracy. it's very, very scary what's going on, and people can't decide what is credible and what is not. >> i know here at cnn, we are all committed and dedicated to pushing forward with news. >> we certainly are. coming up, once the ancestral home of many christians, one iraqi town has basically been abandoned. wait until you see what isis did to their church. that's ahead. plus, pope francis heads to northern italy to bless the rebuilding of a city ravage...

Than 60,000 people called it home. now, months after it was liberated, only a handful of families has returned. without electricity and running water, without help to get life moving again, most residents hesitant to return. businessman tofiq moved back two months ago, a generator running nearby, he shows a list of everything isis looted from his businesses. the central government, he says, hasn't restored power or water. it's completely neglecting the christians. some residents have returned, briefly, to bury the dead. ♪ friends and relatives bid final farewell to 83-year-old nasira, a nun ...

Fear. today, this once prosperous christian community is a ghost town of empty streets, blown-out buildings, gutted shops. everywhere reminders of isis' hatred for everything the town stood for. workers have erected a large cross at one of the main roundabouts to signal the town's liberation, but it's just a symbol. before isis took over this town in the summer of 2014, more than 60,000 people called it home. now, months after it was liberated, only a handful of families has returned. without electricity and running water, without help to get life moving again, most residents are hesitant to r...