NC Register: on Nineveh Plains, ACN Helps with first post-ISIS Christmas
- December 20, 2017
- ACN in the News | Catholic Media
- Iraq | Middle East | National Catholic Register
QARAQOSH, Iraq — In their villages on the Nineveh Plains, Iraq’s Christians are celebrating their first Christmas since the region’s liberation from the Islamic State (ISIS).
In the little town of Qaraqosh (also known as Baghdida), there will be no flocks of sheep grazing, or cows lowing, as in past years past, on the holy night of Christ’s birth — just the sound of Christians singing the Divine Liturgy at midnight in their burned churches. To read the full story, please click here.
