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Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan

Around 25,000 Christians in Qaraqosh participated in the Palm Sunday procession on April 10, 2022. CREDIT: Bashar Yameel Hanna/CNA

Eyewitnesses Recount the Night that Iraqi Christian City Fell to ISIS in 2014

Aug 6, 2023

The small northern Iraqi city of Qaraqosh, with a population of 60,000, 99 percent of whom are Catholic, woke up nine years ago on the morning of Wednesday, 6 August 2014, to the sound of indiscriminate mortar shells that fell on houses, killing three: 32-year-old Inaam Ishua Boulis, five-year-old David Adeeb Elias Shmeis, and nine-year-old Milad Mazen Elias Shmeis.

A Christian family in Qaraqosh sporting their traditional dressing for Holy Week in April 2022. Bashar Yameel Hanna/CNA

Joyful Iraqi Christians Return to Nineveh Plains to Celebrate Holy Week

Apr 11, 2022

An estimated 25,000 Iraqi Christians gathered for a joyous Palm Sunday reunion after years of war and displacement.