{"id":8368,"date":"2018-11-27T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T06:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:52:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:52:21","slug":"vomk-report-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/2018\/11\/27\/vomk-report-32\/","title":{"rendered":"HOMES OF 350 DISPLACED IRAQI CHRISTIANS STOLEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The homes of more than 350 Iraqi Christians in the Mosul area are now being illegally sold and occupied by Muslim residents, according to Iraqi television network al Sumaria. The Iraqi Christians were forced to flee to refugee camps in 2014 after the Mosul area was taken by IS\/Daesh. Now, according to al Sumaria, Muslims are using false legal documents to procure these houses, paying nothing to the Christians who own them.<br \/>\n&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:p|font_size:1.2em|text_align:left&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Noto%20Sans%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal&#8221; el_class=&#8221;headline&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8373&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThese illegal residents are taking up residence in these areas under the assumption that their proper Christian owners will not be returning,\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">said Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative, Dr. Hyun Sook Foley. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cEven when they do return, the illegal residents\u2019 false documents will make reclaiming property difficult for their rightful Christian owners.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhat makes this news especially tragic is that the Iraqi Christians are one of the oldest Christian communities in the world,\u201d Representative Foley explains.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row overlay_dotted=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cWell-meaning Christians from around the world continue to provide humanitarian aid for Iraqi Christians in the refugee camps. That aid helps keep the Iraqi Christians fed and clothed, but it has not enabled them to return home and restart their lives now that the area has been reclaimed from ISIS. The longer time passes, the less likely it becomes that Iraqi Christians will ever be able to return. These home thefts are just the next step in the process of the de-Christianization of the Ninevah plains.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8395&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8361&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row overlay_dotted=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8366&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;custom_link&#8221; img_link_target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; link=&#8221;https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/project\/iraqi-christian-bakery\/&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Representative Foley says that is why Voice of the Martyrs Korea is partnering with other Voice of the Martyrs organizations around the world to help build a bakery in the nearby town of Nahla that Iraqi Christians can own and operate. Representative Foley says that about 220 Iraqi Christian families escaped to the Nahla valley in Kurdistan when IS invaded in 2014. Presently it takes them three hours to travel to the nearest bakery to buy bread. \u201cNot only will the Nahla bakery offer Christians a source of income,\u201d says Representative Foley, \u201cbut it will even give them a safe base from which to reach their non-Christian neighbors, who also have to go a long distance for their daily bread.\u201d Construction of the bakery, which is estimated to cost 125,000,000 KRW, is scheduled to begin in January, to be undertaken by local Christians.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Anyone who wishes to support the bakery project for Iraqi Christians in Nahla Valley can visit Voice of the Martyrs Korea\u2019s project profile at <a href=\"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/project\/iraqi-christian-bakery\/\">Iraqi Christian Bakery<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The homes of more than 350 Iraqi Christians in the Mosul area are now being illegally sold and occupied by Muslim residents, according to Iraqi television network al Sumaria. &#8230;","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":8391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[677,674,279,675,676,538,539],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vomk-report","tag-iraqi-christians","tag-674","tag-279","tag-675","tag-676","tag-vom","tag-539"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en","zh","ru"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"zh":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}