Iraq: Church and convent bombed in Mosul
— ACN News reports: “CHRISTIANS in Iraq were lucky to escape with their lives after bomb attacks on a Catholic church and a convent of Sisters.
St Ephrem’s Chaldean Church, in the northern city of Mosul, was reduced to a blackened shell when attackers walked in and detonated high explosives.
The building, and the nearby presbytery which was also attacked, were both empty at the time of the attacks and nobody was hurt.
Shortly after the explosions on Thursday morning, 26th November morning, a further bomb attack took place at St Theresa’s Convent, a few minutes’ drive away, also in the Al Jadeda district of New Mosul, in the west of the city.
At least five Sisters were in the building when the attack took place but they got out unharmed.
They were not in the part of the convent damaged by the bomb which was thrown at the complex.
Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need, the Catholic charity for persecuted and other suffering Christians, one of the Sisters described the attack.”