ICC Note:

The historic Syrian Orthodox Church of St Ephraim in Mosul, one of the region’s largest Christian sites, was freed by Iraqi forces several months ago. Iraqi officials found that at least 200 Yazidi girls and women were imprisoned in the church and used as sex slaves. The Church is in ruins but despite the horrible actions ISIS committed there, locals are determined to rebuild and return the church to the endangered Iraqi Christian community.

06/16/2017 Iraq (Fox News) – In the basement of an decimated church in eastern Mosul, rubble and debris tell a gut-wrenching story of ISIS’ depravity towards Yazidi women and girls. On the floor of the iconic house of worship lie tiny pieces of pink and yellow underwear and flower headbands belonging to the very young Yazidi sex slaves the barbaric terrorist group took captive.

Iraqi officials tell Fox News that at least 200 Yazidi girls and women were imprisoned in the historic Syrian Orthodox Church of St. Ephraim, one of the region’s largest Christian sites, which was freed by Iraqi forces several months ago.

“We found documents where they questioned them about their age, whether married or single, virgin or not, period or not,” Iraqi Forces 1st Lt. Waseem Nenwaya, told Fox News.

In addition, he noted, ISIS used the church to store documents from their various departments of the terror group.

In June 2015, a year after ISIS overran Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul and much of its surrounding Nineveh Plains region, the group used street notices to announce it was converting that church into a “mosque of the mujahedeen.” Subsequently, the cross from the dome was ripped down and all furniture in the house of worship was stripped of furniture and Christian symbols.

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