One ‘Christian’ town freed en route to Mosul
...to sources monitoring the situation on the ground, Bartella, a town with a significant Christian presence prior to the IS invasion, was back in Iraqi government hands on Thursday (20...
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Thinking of home this Christmas, displaced Iraqi Christians look ahead with hope
...and Bartella were offering the displaced from Mosul necessary help before they in turn became themselves refugees. “My niece was called by the new IS occupants of her home. They...
Iraqi Christians still held by Islamic State ‘against their will’
...free: “among them is a three-year-old girl that IS has demanded thousands of dollars to release.” She estimates about 40 Christians from Qaraqosh, Bartella and Karamles are still detained in...
What’s the threat of Islamic State to the Church worldwide?
...of Qaraqosh has been abandoned as well, along with other villages; the last Christians have left the northern town of Bartella. Tens of thousands of Christians have become internally displaced,...
Iraq: last Christians to leave Bartella
Rev. Yacoub Saad ShamasCourtesy Open Doors International The last Christians have fled the northern Iraqi town of Bartella. Six babies were born during the difficult journey east to Erbil,...
‘One week’ deadlines for Iraqi Christians to convert or ‘face the sword’
...of Ankawa in the province of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region. According to MCN Direct, others who fled from a district in Nineveh, and from Qaraqosh and Bartella,...
Qaraqosh falls, thousands flee
...know that the towns of Qaraqosh, Tal Kayf, Bartella and Karamlesh have been emptied of their original population and are now under the control of the militants,” Joseph Thomas, the...