Bittersweet Christmas for Iraqi Christians near Mosul
By AFP
26 December 2016 |
9:01 am
Iraqi Christians celebrated a bittersweet Christmas in a town near Mosul from which they had fled over two years before, in a church still marred by damaged crosses and jihadist graffiti.
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