CWN - World Watch Monitor, a news agency that reports on the persecution of Christians, has published a profile of Alqosh, a northern Iraqi town of four churches, two monasteries, and 500 Christian families that once was close to being taken over by ISIS.
“Christianity in Alqosh is like gold,” a Chaldean Catholic priest who ministers there. “It is tested in the fire. It hurts, but the result is that the gold will be purer.”
“I see people changing, not just in faith but also in their behavior,” he added. They have felt for themselves that, when everything could be taken from them, God is all that remains. When the government soldiers leave you, when IS comes, when you run out of bullets, who do you cry out to?”
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