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Islamic State bombs Christian convent in Iraq

Nov 11, 2015 9:24 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Christian convent Iraq

The Islamic State reportedly detonated the convent belonging to the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena on the morning of November 5. The explosion of the convent caused considerable damage to adjacent buildings.

According to the Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights and other media, this latest attack by the “caliphate” occurred in Tel Keppe—“Hill of Stones”—one of the largest historically Assyrian Christian towns in northern Iraq, in the Ninawa Governorate, about 8 miles northeast of Mosul.

This is the latest assault on a Christian building since the Islamic State took over the predominantly Christian village in August, 2014. Among other attacks on Christian buildings and symbols, the soldiers of Muhammad removed and desecrated the crosses from the highest church dome, that belonging to the Christ Heart Church on September 8, 2014, and bombed the Virgin Mary Church on March 2015.

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Filed Under: Iraq, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Muslim persecution of Christians Tagged With: Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena


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  1. David says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 11:12 am

    As our prez, the muslim, selects a new prayer rug for his white house bedroom!!!?
    How much longer must we endure these OUTRAGES?

    • ? says

      Nov 11, 2015 at 7:36 pm

      Are you kidding? He’s getting everything ready, his harem of homo, his golf course, and his two pathetic weights hat he uses every 10 years or so.

    • Sh. N. says

      Nov 12, 2015 at 6:17 am

      You need to wait until somebody decides to blow them and their Islamic congregations ten times more than what they do.
      Never smile at those who behead your friends. Nuke them all. Erase those who want to erase you.

  2. Angemon says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 11:17 am

    This is the latest assault on a Christian building since the Islamic State took over the predominantly Christian village in August, 2014.

    Latest but not the last. Not by a longshot.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 11:44 am

    Stomach turning stupidity that the EU feels morally obligated to invite such people into Europe?

  4. Cecilia Ellis says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    Obama, Kerry, Reza Aslan, et al., say, “ISIS is not Islamic,” and “Islam is a religion of peace.” One would expect that, in view of the daily reports of savagery accomplished specifically in the name of Islam, there would be a worldwide Islamic denouncement — from approximately 1.7 billion adherents — of past and continued atrocities. Yet, as people die, churches burn, and historical sites are destroyed, there is no end to the rhetoric of Islam’s tolerance and peacefulness. Meanwhile, the voices of 1.7 billion adherents are to be heard nowhere, because such an outcry would require rejection of the core texts and doctrines of Islam, the status of supremacy being the most difficult to reject.

  5. TH says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 4:32 pm

    A convent is a place where nuns live and work and also pray. Nuns have traditionally done things like teaching children, taking care of orphans and old folks or simply are enclosed in convents where they dedicate all their enegies to serving God and do work to make a living, such as selling cakes and other products which they make with great love and perfection. What could any rational human being have against such women who sacrifice themselves for the love of God and neighbor?
    The problem is that Islam is anything but rational. It is total depravation, just like is founder.

  6. Jeremiah says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    Who is on the Lord’s side? Get the Christians to safety first. Then destroy all Islamic training centers and keep destroying them. Prevent the muslims from attending the teaching of the koran. Islam is the enemy, not muslims. When they hold onto their faith willingly, then we can be friends. If they read the koran they are usually surprised at the lack of moral values and the promotion of rape and violence.

  7. Linde Barrera says

    Nov 11, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    God bless these Christian nuns and all Christians in Iraq and Syria. Pray that groups like Open Doors, Barnabas Fund and ACERO can help get them moved to other countries that want them and will help them.

  8. mortimer says

    Nov 12, 2015 at 3:19 pm

    Hey, Pope Francis! How are you doing? What are you doing for Mid-East Christians except praising Islam?

    Why don’t you tell Caliph al Baghdadi that he MISUNDERSTANDS Islam and that YOUR HOLINESS understands Islam better than a PhD in Islamic Studies.

  9. Armageddon says

    Nov 12, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    U.S. GOVERNMENT could care less about Christians, except to put them down. Leftists say there is no attack on Christians while they slowly grind them down under their heel.

  10. Guest says

    Nov 12, 2015 at 6:57 pm

    The pope seems to be calling for an army to support global warming, but not an army for this?
    What is wrong with him?

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