Our Lady returns to the Nineveh Plain



Statues of the Virgin Mary were installed across Assyrian towns liberated from ISIS in the Nineveh Plain.

Syriac Church leaders in the Nineveh Plain installed 15 statues of the Virgin Mary across their towns at the weekend. The statues were donated by a French organisation named L'Oeuvre d'Orient.

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