Three crosses that were damaged when ISIS Islamists seized Iraq’s Nineveh Plains are to be added to an exhibition currently on show in Westminster Cathedral.
They will join other artefacts and Christian crosses being displayed in the cathedral’s “It’s Iconic!” exhibition, which opened last month.
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The crosses come from Chaldean and Syriac Catholic churches, which were targeted when the Islamist insurgent group took over the Nineveh Plains in the north of the country during the summer of 2014, reports Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).
The Nineveh Plains, which lie to the northeast of the city of Mosul that ISIS occupied, heralding a period of terror and destruction for its inhabitants, is the only region in Iraq where a plurality of inhabitants follow Syriac Christianity.
