Atrocious!
[h=1]IS razes to ground the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq, satellite images show[/h]
January 20, 2016 22:56
The Islamic State group has completely destroyed a 1,400-year-old Christian monastery in Iraq, the oldest of its kind in the country.
Satellite images released on Wednesday showed just a pile of rubble where St Elijah's Monastery used to stand on a hill above Mosul, the terror group's stronghold in Iraq.
The monastery had survived as a place of Christian worship for almost one-and-a-half millenia, predating Islam itself, and had only suffered superficial damage throughout the country's most recent conflicts.
http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2...-images-show/b9d044d8168e9385252d62b72a6b9ed9
[h=1]IS razes to ground the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq, satellite images show[/h]
January 20, 2016 22:56
The Islamic State group has completely destroyed a 1,400-year-old Christian monastery in Iraq, the oldest of its kind in the country.
Satellite images released on Wednesday showed just a pile of rubble where St Elijah's Monastery used to stand on a hill above Mosul, the terror group's stronghold in Iraq.
The monastery had survived as a place of Christian worship for almost one-and-a-half millenia, predating Islam itself, and had only suffered superficial damage throughout the country's most recent conflicts.
http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2...-images-show/b9d044d8168e9385252d62b72a6b9ed9
