In what is emerging as one of the worst atrocities of the civil war in Iraq, jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) who captured control of the city of Mosul, about 300 km north of the capital, Baghdad, in June, have murdered many of the city’s Christian minority and forced the rest to flee. The Sunni terrorists have also destroyed a number of mosques and shrines of the Shia branch of Islam. Christians have fled en masse from Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, abando…
