Today’s Wall Street Journal (March 25, 2016) brings news that the Iraqi army has retaken four villages on the Nineveh Plain from the Islamic State.
The Nineveh Plain is that area of Iraq outside of the city of Mosul where many displaced Christians used to live. Coupled with the offensives by the Kurdish Peshmerga (which retook Sinjar last November), the Islamic State in Iraq is slowly but inexorably being encircled and confined. Which gives us here at SPC hope that displaced Christians now living in the Kurdish region will be able to return to their homes this year.
The task of rebuilding the Christian presence of the Nineveh region after the desecration of the Islamic State will be an enormous task – but a joyous one. Then comes the challenge of guaranteeing the safety of Christians of that region in perpetuity.
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