3rd July, 2014
The Assyrian television channel Ishtar TV is reporting that five Assyrians are missing in Mosul.
According to a story by the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), they are two Chaldean nuns from the Daughters of Mary Order, Sister Miskintah and Sister Utoor Joseph, as well as Hala Salim, Sarah Khoshaba and Aram Sabah.
Sisters Miskintah and Utoor managed an orphanage for girls in Mosul, in the Khazraj neighborhood near Miskintah Church. After Mosul fell to ISIS, the two nuns brought the orphaned girls to the city of Dohuk for safety.
The nuns returned late Saturday to Mosul, accompanied by Salim, Khoshaba and Sabah, to inspect the monastery. However, AINA said, since then there has been no contact with them and no one has any idea where they are. It is believed they have been kidnapped by Muslims.
Nearly all of Mosul”s Christians have fled the city since it fell to ISIS on 10th June. ISIS members bombed an Armenian church which was under construction in the Left Bank neighborhood, near al-Salaam Hospital, and looted The Church of the Holy Spirit.
Two days after taking over Mosul, ISIS imposed Islamic law and began collecting the poll tax (jizya) from Christians.
On 21st June, AINA said, ISIS members raped a mother and daughter and killed four women for not wearing the veil
– JEREMY REYNALDS, ASSIST News Service.
