“Baghdad ha perduto la sua bellezza e non ne è rimasto che il nome.
Rispetto a ciò che essa era un tempo, prima che gli eventi la colpissero e gli occhi delle calamità si rivolgessero a lei, essa non è più che una traccia annullata, o una sembianza di emergente fantasma.”
Ibn Battuta
"La situazione sta peggiorando. Gridate con noi che i diritti umani sono calpestati da persone che parlano in nome di Dio ma che non sanno nulla di Lui che è Amore, mentre loro agiscono spinti dal rancore e dall'odio.
WCC visit to Iraq: A Future Destroyed (with English subtitles) A 14 year old girl tells the delegation from the World Council of Churches she has no hope of returning to her home following the ethnic and religious purges of ISIS. This video was recorded 29 August 2014 at St Peter and Paul Assyrian Church of the East in Dohuk, Iraq. The church is housing 60 displaced families.
WCC visit to Iraq: Mosul - To Leave or To Return (with English subtitles) Two women, one Christian and one Sunni Muslim, discuss the merits of leaving Iraq or returning to Mosul in the wake of ISIS atrocities. This video was recorded 29 August 2014 at St Peter and Paul Assyrian Church of the East in Dohuk, Iraq, during the visit of a delegation from the World Council of Churches. The church is housing 60 displaced families.
WCC visit to Iraq: "They Killed Everyone" (with English subtitles) This video testimony was recorded 29 August 2014 in a camp for internally displaced persons in Kefke, Iraq during the visit of a WCC delegation. This Yazidi man from the Niniveh Plain tells the story of his friends and family who could not escape Mount Sinjar after fleeing their homes.
WCC visit to Iraq: The Last to Flee (with English subtitles) This man was the last Christian to leave his village on the Nineveh plain south of Mosul. Betrayed to ISIS by his close friend and neighbour of 16 years, he worries for the four of five families still left in the village. Video recorded 30 August 2014 in Dohuk, Iraq during the visit of a delegation from the World Council of Churches.
