CWN - Journalist Patrick Cockburn has written a report on the Syriac Catholics of Bakhdida (Qaraqosh), whose town was recently liberated from ISIS control.
Two years ago, the town’s Catholics fled 40 miles away to Erbil as ISIS advanced. Though Bakhdida is now liberated, it lacks electricity and water, and buildings have been destroyed by ISIS and its opponents.
Above all, the Catholics “know that if they do [return] they will be at the mercy of Arab and Kurdish authorities eager to fill the vacuum left by the fall of ISIS and wishing to stake new claims to territory and power.”
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