Excerpt: “In October this year, I returned from a 10-day fact-finding mission to Mosul and the surrounding Christian villages of the Nineveh Plain, which was evangelized by St. Thomas in the 1st century AD. Many of the churches here still conduct Mass in Aramaic, the language of Jesus. But ISIS’s presence lingered throughout.

“Look at this grave,” local councilman Luis Markos Ayoub told me, as we walked through the cemetery of Saint Georges church in Karamlesh, a Christian village just east of Mosul.

“It is fresh — not because the person just died, but because the family came back here to rebury their loved one. ISIS had dug up the dead body and decapitated it, because it was Christian.”

https://nypost.com/2018/12/15/why-us-forces-must-step-in-to-save-iraqi-christians-from-extinction/?fbclid=IwAR3JAPuofeBuQaHz1DieQglzERzM1xA4FVZu69Uzd5iY6xfAqMJIx7puFRs