Since ISIS occupied Mosul and the surrounding Nineveh Plains in 2014, more than 100,000 Christians have left the city, but some were unable to do so because of old age and sickness, among many other reasons. The believers who were left behind where forced to pay tax to the Islamist militants, convert to Islam, or face death, The Christian Post recalls.
Zarifa Badoos Daddo, a 77-year-old Christian widow from Qaraqosh in northern Iraq, told Reuters how ISIS militants threatened to kill her and forced her to step on an image of Virgin Mary and spit on a crucifix. The elderly