REPORTAGE: The Last Christians of Iraq
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The Last Christians of Iraq

The cemetery in the Assyrian town of Al-Qosh overlooking the Nineveh Plain in Northern Iraq. The town was established more than 2500 years ago and was one of the first to adopt Christianity in the first century AD. The Iraqi Christian community is thought to be one of the longest coninuous Christian communities in the world. Violence, persecution and sectarian strife have forced two thirds of Iraqi Christians to flee the country in recent years and many more to be displaced to the relative security of Iraqi Kurdistan. Al Qosh, Iraq. 19/04/2014.

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The cemetery in the Assyrian town of Al-Qosh overlooking the Nineveh Plain in Northern Iraq. The town was established more than 2500 years ago and was one of the first to adopt Christianity in the first century AD. The Iraqi Christian community is thought to be one of the longest coninuous Christian communities in the world. Violence, persecution and sectarian strife have forced two thirds of Iraqi Christians to flee the country in recent years and many more to be displaced to the relative security of Iraqi Kurdistan. Al Qosh, Iraq. 19/04/2014.