“When I first met Martin Banni in 2014, he had just fled northern Iraq’s Nineveh Plains, which had been seized by ISIS. . . .the future priest and 120,000 others were entirely dependent on the charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) and other organisations for help. Now that ISIS has been forced out of Nineveh and is suffering losses across the region, there is an urgent need for Fr Martin and the displaced community to return to their homelands while they have the chance.”
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Middle East Christians need to go home
John Pontifex, Catholic Herald
Monday, July 31, 2017
“When I first met Martin Banni in 2014, he had just fled northern Iraq’s Nineveh Plains, which had been seized by ISIS. . . .the future priest and 120,000 others were entirely dependent on the charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) and other organisations for help. Now that ISIS has been forced out of Nineveh and is suffering losses across the region, there is an urgent need for Fr Martin and the displaced community to return to their homelands while they have the chance.”