Posted: 07/02/2014 at 1:10pm | IP Logged

MOSUL, IRAQ (ANS) -- The Assyrian television channel Ishtar TV is reporting that five Assyrians are missing in Mosul.

Sister Utoor Joseph (left) and Sister Miskintah, who disappeared on late Saturday, June 28 in Mosul (photo: Ishtar TV).

According to a story by the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), they are two Chaldean nuns from the Daughters of Mary Order, Sister Miskintah and Sister Utoor Joseph, as well as Hala Salim, Sarah Khoshaba and Aram Sabah.

Sisters Miskintah and Utoor managed an orphanage for girls in Mosul, in the Khazraj neighborhood near Miskintah Church. After Mosul fell to ISIS, the two nuns brought the orphaned girls to the city of Dohuk for safety.

The nuns returned late Saturday to Mosul, accompanied by Salim, Khoshaba and Sabah, to inspect the monastery. However, AINA said, since then there has been no contact with them and no one has any idea where they are. It is believed they have been kidnapped by Muslims.

From left: Hala Salim, Sarah Khoshaba and Aram Sabah. (photo: Ishtar TV)

Nearly all of Mosul’s Christians have fled the city since it fell to ISIS on June 10. ISIS members bombed an Armenian church which was under construction in the Left Bank neighborhood, near al-Salaam Hospital, and looted The Church of the Holy Spirit.

Two days after taking over Mosul, ISIS imposed Islamic law and began collecting the poll tax (jizya) from Christians.

On June 21, AINA said, ISIS members raped a mother and daughter and killed four women for not wearing the veil.

Source: Assist News Service