Iraq: Marian Statue, Once Desecrated By Islamic State, Returns to Parish

A statue of the Virgin Mary that had been desecrated by the Islamic State but was later restored has been returned to its original church.

The statue was decapitated, and its hands cut off, in Karemlesh, a largely Christian town 18 miles east of Mosul, during the Islamic State’s occupation of the villages in the Nineveh...