ISIS infamously destroyed many historic Christian sites in the Levant during their reign of terror in the region.
That included several churches in Iraq, some of which have stood for centuries or even more than a millennium.
Two of those churches were finally rebuilt a decade after they were destroyed.
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Mar Toma, a Syriac Orthodox church which dates to the seventh century, and the Chaldean Catholic Church of Al-Tahira were both reopened on Oct. 15, according to a report from Vatican News.
“These churches are our roots, our history,” Patriarch Louis Raphaël Sako, the head of Iraq’s Chaldean Church, said in a statement to reporters.
“We need to keep them alive.”
Vatican News reported that ISIS had used Mar Toma, or the Church of St.
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