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Eleven years have passed since ISIS seized Mosul and the Nineveh towns and with every anniversary commemorated each year, the same question arises: How many Iraqi Christians remain?
Despite tensions and renewed challenges from regional conflict, Iraqi churchesremain full. Just weeks ago, Christians there celebrated joyfully as 1,000 young boys and girls received their first Communion.
In Iraq’s capital, Chaldean parishes celebrated first Communion for 50 children, while 32 others received the sacrament at the Syriac Catholic parish.
Most significantly, 11 children took their first Communion at the Syriac Catholic Church of Our Lady of Deliverance — the same church that witnessed a horrific massacre in 2010, when dozens of worshippers and two priests were killed and hundreds wounded.
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Despite tensions and renewed challenges from regional conflict, Iraqi churchesremain full. Just weeks ago, Christians there celebrated joyfully as 1,000 young boys and girls received their first Communion.
In Iraq’s capital, Chaldean parishes celebrated first Communion for 50 children, while 32 others received the sacrament at the Syriac Catholic parish.
Most significantly, 11 children took their first Communion at the Syriac Catholic Church of Our Lady of Deliverance — the same church that witnessed a horrific massacre in 2010, when dozens of worshippers and two priests were killed and hundreds wounded.
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Hope in Iraq: Churches full as 1,500 children celebrate first Communion
Just weeks ago, Christians throughout Iraq celebrated as 1,500 boys and girls received their first holy Communion.
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