Seven years of silence: Church in former IS Iraqi stronghold gets its bell back
By AFP
20 September 2021 |
11:18 am
A bell is inaugurated at a church in Mosul to the cheers of Iraqi Christians, seven years after the Islamic State group overran the northern city. Dozens of faithful stood by as Father Pios Affas rang the newly installed bell for the first time at the Syriac Christian church of Mar Tuma.
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