Special envoy to Mosul.
The bells of the Mosulian convent of Notre-Dame-de-l'Heure rang sharply at noon, and the whole neighborhood suddenly raised their heads to better hear the twelve strokes.
What a symbol!
In order not to stir up tensions with al-Qaeda, the Dominicans had deemed it prudent to silence them about twenty years ago, before having them stolen from them in the chaos of the occupation of the old city by Daesh.
Recast last year in a French foundry, Cornille Havard, the three bells can once again mark time.
On March 7, the day of their reinstatement, the emotion of the Christians - and not only of them - was palpable, some being on the verge of tears.
At the same time, the wind began to blow gently over this corner of the earth, cradle of Christianity and former martyr of the barbarism of the madmen of God.
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These three chimes, "
it's life coming back
", says the brother, under the "
Mabrouk!"
(“blessed of God”, in Arabic) of the workers who worked on the restoration…
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