Cross on hill represents hope for village in Iraq

MOSUL, Iraq — A giant cross now stands on a hill near Mosul, Iraq, to celebrate a village that is being rebuilt after its liberation from the Islamic State (IS) terror group.

Louis Sako, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Baghdad, called the cross in the village of Telekuf-Tesqopa “the first spark of light shining in all the cities of the Nineveh Plain since the darkness of IS,” according to The Christian Post.

During a mass in the village, the first in two and a half years, Sako said the cross announces to the world “that this is our land, we were born here and we will die here.” To celebrate, local Christians set off fireworks and cheered.

The area was reclaimed by Iraqi forces working in concert with United States air strikes. (TAB)