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‘They want to kill you’

07/25/2019 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

The Iraqi monks had just finished hiding manuscripts when the Islamic State militants showed up By Doreen Abi Raad Catholic News Service BEIRUT — The first time a band of Islamic State militants “visited” the monks, they presented the monks with a kind of suggestion, in a nonthreatening manner: “Why don’t you become a Muslim?” […]

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