ben wedeman has more. reporter: a small flock returned for mass in the charred ruins of the church of mary of the imam cue lat near mosul. be isis set fire to the church and used its courtyard has as a firing range. this man came home to kara koch a week ago and has yet to recover. the shock. i felt pain, he recalls. my eyes filled with tears. she is back just for mass. and says this is the first time i returned to this church and then she s at a loss for words.
a christian community right outside mosul, which has been you shou under siege for many, many months, was abandoned after isis took over. more than 60,000 people fled as the militants vandalized and looted and burned their homes. one of the town s biggest churches actually became a place for target practice. and the rest of the area is a ghost town. reporter: a small flock has returned for mass in the charred ruins of the church of mary the immaculate near mosul. isis set fire to the church and used its courtyard as a firing range.
breaking news tonight on the ugly came pain tonight on more than a million christians in the middle east. the terror group, isis, is forcing christians from territories and now the pope is speaking out. the church of mary in iraq s second largest city is now abandoned after militants closed it and brought down the cross that once stood on its rooftop. they gave christians the saturday deadline and the following choig, they could leave, convert to islam, or they could die. and thousands of the faith fled everything with literally just the clothes on their back in some places, following messages scrawled on their homes. translated they read long live the islamic state in iraq and live on. muslims are happy with the
breaking news tonight on the ugly came pain tonight on more than a million christians in the middle east. the terror group, isis, is forcing christians from territories and now the pope is speaking out. the church of mary in iraq s second large abandoned after militants closed it and brought down the cross that once stood on its rooftop. they gave christians the saturday deadline and the following choig, they could leave, convert to islam, or they could die. and thousands of the faith fled everything with literally just the clothes on their back in some places, following messages scrawled on their homes. translated they read long live the islamic state in iraq and live on. muslims are happy with the return of .