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A 50-year-old, blind Christian woman resisted conversion to Islam for over two years. Now living in a displacement camp, she is opening up about her experiences living under ISIS control in Mosul. When demanded to convert to Islam, this woman is reported to have told the ISIS militant she would never convert and never be anything like him.

3/14/2017 Iraq (Christian Post) – A blind Christian woman who was trapped under Islamic State control in Mosul for over two years before she was finally able to escape has opened up about how she boldly refused militants’ demands for her to denounce Christ and convert to Islam.

Mariyam Petrayus, a blind Christian woman from western Mosul who recently fled IS (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Deash) territory and now lives in a displacement camp in Kurdistan, told the Kurdish news outlet Rudaw in a recent interview that she had to walk tens of kilometers through the IS-held territory before she could reach the safety of the Kurdish region.

Petrayus is among the 6,000 internally displaced people who were forced to flee Mosul in recent weeks as the Iraqi-led coalition’s offensive to liberate Iraq’s second largest city from the grips of IS continues.

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