ICC Note

The Nineveh Reconstruction Committee has received funding from the Aid to Church in Need to fund the construction of 100 houses in the Nineveh Plains region. Towns like Bartella and Qeraqosh have been devastated by ISIS leaving nothing for displaced persons to restart their lives. While 100 homes is a small number in comparison to the estimated 13,000 that need to be built, it is a positive first step.  

2017-05-08 Iraq (Fox) – The long road home for the thousands of Iraqi Christians displaced by ISIS is set to begin Monday with the construction of 100 houses– the first of an estimated 13,000 houses to be built in a venture that will cost about $250 million.

Ethnic and religious minority groups like the Assyrian Christians were driven from their ancestral homelands across the Nineveh Plain, a vast region in Northern Iraq, when the Islamic State attempted to establish their caliphate.

But now that ISIS forces have mostly been driven out of the region, the Assyrians are looking to return and rebuild. The work is finally beginning due to an organization called  the Nineveh Reconstruction Committee (NRC), which has received funding from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), a pastoral aid organization associated with the Catholic Church.

The NRC will break ground on Monday in the Assyrian towns of Bartella, Karamless and Qaraqosh, when they will either repair or completely rebuild the first 100 homes.

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