About 500 Christian families -- up to 2,500 people -- celebrated their long-awaited homecoming to Iraq's Nineveh Plains with ceremonies marking a fresh start in their old towns and villages, the Independent Catholic News website reports today (September 15, 2017).
In Qaraqosh, the largest of Nineveh's Christian towns, priests and others holding olive branches processed through the streets chanting hymns in Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ.
Protected by security personnel in armored vehicles, the procession was headed by priests holding crucifixes.
A service was held at the Immaculate Conception Syriac Catholic Church in the town center in a building desecrated and burnt by the Islamic State (IS) terrorists.
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