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Iraqi Christians who fled the violence in the village of Qaraqush, about 30 kilometres east of the northern province of Nineveh, rest upon their arrival at the Saint-Joseph church in the Kurdish city of Arbil, in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, on August 7, 2014. Gunmen from the Sunni Muslim Islamic State (IS) seized Qaraqush, Iraq’s largest Christian town, and several others near Mosul following the withdrawal of Kurdish peshmerga fighters, inhabitants said. AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED