A “Christian home” should be created on the Nineveh Plain in Iraq, according to a key religious leader who lived and served the Christian community there before ISIS took it over, according to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
And the international community should be the one to establish that home.
The report comes from the European Center for Law and Justice, which held a reception for Monseigneur Nicodemus Daoud Sharf, the Syriac Orthodox archbishop of Mosul.
He was the last bishop to leave Mosul in June 2014 when the city was taken by ISIS, which has been killing Christians and others across the Middle East with beheadings, drownings, burnings and more.
The organization, in a little noticed report from a few weeks ago, said it held a reception for the archbishop “to show him support and give him the opportunity to bear witness in Europe of what Christians from Iraq suffer.”
Get the rest of this report, and more, at Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
He denounced the “genocide” which has been developing for “years” and which no international action opposed.
“We Syrians are the original inhabitants of this land, then we became a minority and now we are merely refugees in our own land.”
The Nineveh Plain is not only the historical home of the Assyrian people, a majority of the population in the region traditionally has been Assyrians, who mostly are Christian.
The region lies to the east and north of Mosul and contains the ancient city of Nineveh, to which, the Bible records, the prophet Jonah was dispatched by God.
Sharaf called on ECLJ and others to pursue requests with their “governments and international institutes” to allow the repatriation of Christians to their homeland and protect a “Christian home” there.
“Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds: They all have got their territory. Christians … must also have a right to live in peace, they need a secured home,” he said.
The world’s “powerful countries” could, indeed, stop ISIS “if they want to,” he said.
He said that under Muslim control of the region, “Christians are cheap people, you can kill them, they count for nothing.”
Get the rest of this report, and more, at Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
