Ninevah monastery hopes for liberation - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Saleh Elias

Saleh Elias

Apr 1, 2015

Iraqis inspect the destruction caused by an explosion at the entrance of a monastery in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, 06 January 2008. Bombs exploded today outside two churches and a monastery in Mosul, wounding four people and slightly damaging the buildings, police said. AFP PHOTO/MUJAHED MOHAMMED (Photo credit should read MUJAHED MOHAMMED/AFP/Getty Images) — Iraqis inspect the destruction caused by an explosion at the entrance of the Markourkas monastery in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Jan. 6, 2008. — MUJAHED MOHAMMED/AFP/Getty Images

عربي

Iraqi Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter at the church of the ancient Mor Mattai Monastery in the village of Bashiqa

Iraqi Christians celebrate first Easter 'Holy Fire'

Agence France-Presse

Fighters from the "Kataeb Babylon", a group of Christian fighters who fight alongside the Hashd Shabi, Shi'ite fighters, gather at the Mar Behnam monastery after the town was recaptured from the Islamic State, in Ali Rash, southeast of Mosul, Iraq November 21, 2016. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani - RTSSP9F

Iraq's Christians demand reconstruction of religious sites

Wassim Bassem

School bells ring again at Mosul's Christian school

Adnan Abu Zeed

A large mosaic is pictured at the archaeological site of the St. Hilarion Monastery, one of the largest Christian monasteries in the Middle East, in Tell Umm al-Amr close to Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on March 19, 2013. The earliest building dates back to the fourth century and is attributed to St. Hilarion, a native of the Gaza region and the father of Palestinian monasticism. Abandoned after a seventh-century earthquake and uncovered by local archaeologists in 1999, today the settlement asp

New archaeological discovery in St. Hilarion Monastery

Ahmad Abu Amer