Iraqi priest: Mosul’s liberation must precede Christians’ return to homes
September 11, 2014
A Syriac Catholic priest who works with an Iraqi archbishop said that Christians will not return to their homes on Iraq’s Nineveh plain until Mosul, the nation’s 2nd-largest city, is liberated from the control of the Islamic State.
“It is a common sense decision taken by the archbishop and his people,” said Father Nizar Semaan, who works with Archbishop Youhanna Boutros Moshe of Mosul, according to a Fides report.
“It would be pointless to return to our homes while the situation remains so uncertain and we are all exposed, as before, to the danger of fresh attacks by the Islamic State jihadists,” he added.
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