First church service in liberated Iraq town

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(30 Oct 2016) The first church service was held in the recently liberated Iraqi town of Qaraqosh by the bishop of the diocese of Mosul, Kirkuk and Kurdistan, who blessed the Church of the Immaculate Conception. • Qaraqosh, the biggest Christian town on the Nineveh plains in Iraq's north, fell to the Islamic State group in 2014 and was retaken by Iraqi government forces this week as part of an ongoing operation to retake Mosul. • Islamic State (IS) group fighters continue to resist on the town’s outskirts. • The Nineveh plains are home to a large Christian minority, mostly Assyrians and Chaldeans, most of whom fled the onslaught of the IS group when the area fell to the militants two and a half years ago. • Many of them live in displaced people’s camps in Iraq’s Kurdish north, while others have emigrated to the West. • • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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