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Iraqi nun before Congress: the Christians of Iraq have lost everything
Friday, 15 May 2015 12:57
In human word painful addressed the Iraqi nun Diana Momcika, in her testimony before the US Congress, considered that "the Christians of Iraq have lost everything, including their dignity and their history, also continues to organize an Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant, Daash , erase any evidence of the Christian presence in the region . " She Momcika, that have been displace by the organization, in testimony before the Foreign Affairs Committee in the US House of Representatives: "After the passage of nearly a year since the control Daash the most plain of Nineveh in northern Iraq, the Christian citizens are still in dire need to edit their land ".
According to the Christian Post reported, the nun Diana is one of the Dominican Sisters of the followers of the Church of St. Catherine of Siena, has fled her hometown "Karakus" to the territory of Kurdistan , last summer after the fall of Mosul in the hands of the organization. She explained Diana, in front of the hearing held by the Congress about Christian Iraq , "it is one of over 120 thousand civilians left their homes and left their belongings fleeing to Kurdistan to escape from the atrocities committed by the terrorist organization Daash." She asked: "Why we are forced to leave our country? What have we done?" Certain "that the Christians of Iraq are the first people in this land." She pointed out that "Daash plan aims to empty Iraq of Christians, so are displaced and forcibly displace." She stressed the Iraqi nun that Assyrian Christians have lost everything, even their own history, which dates back to 2000 years ago, saying: "We have lost everything and today every Christian live after fleeing to Kurdistan does not feel dignity. " They pointed out that "when you lose your home and everything is owned by, you lose your heritage and your culture becomes without an identity and this is what we see ourselves today."
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Friday, 15 May 2015 12:57
In human word painful addressed the Iraqi nun Diana Momcika, in her testimony before the US Congress, considered that "the Christians of Iraq have lost everything, including their dignity and their history, also continues to organize an Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant, Daash , erase any evidence of the Christian presence in the region . " She Momcika, that have been displace by the organization, in testimony before the Foreign Affairs Committee in the US House of Representatives: "After the passage of nearly a year since the control Daash the most plain of Nineveh in northern Iraq, the Christian citizens are still in dire need to edit their land ".
According to the Christian Post reported, the nun Diana is one of the Dominican Sisters of the followers of the Church of St. Catherine of Siena, has fled her hometown "Karakus" to the territory of Kurdistan , last summer after the fall of Mosul in the hands of the organization. She explained Diana, in front of the hearing held by the Congress about Christian Iraq , "it is one of over 120 thousand civilians left their homes and left their belongings fleeing to Kurdistan to escape from the atrocities committed by the terrorist organization Daash." She asked: "Why we are forced to leave our country? What have we done?" Certain "that the Christians of Iraq are the first people in this land." She pointed out that "Daash plan aims to empty Iraq of Christians, so are displaced and forcibly displace." She stressed the Iraqi nun that Assyrian Christians have lost everything, even their own history, which dates back to 2000 years ago, saying: "We have lost everything and today every Christian live after fleeing to Kurdistan does not feel dignity. " They pointed out that "when you lose your home and everything is owned by, you lose your heritage and your culture becomes without an identity and this is what we see ourselves today."
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