ISIS tried to destroy Christianity in this Iraqi city…until the people rose up and kicked their asses

As fighting continues between Iraqi forces and Islamic State fighters in western Mosul, Iraqi Christians are slowly returning to their homes in some cities liberated from the terror group.



On his last trip to the front lines, Operation Blessing's President Bill Horan saw first-hand what ISIS did to Iraq's largest Christian town.



"I'm standing here on the roof of a church, a historic church in Qaraqosh," Horan said while filming on a church rooftop. "This is a community of over 50,000 people. Every man, woman and child was a Christian that lived in this community."



On August 6, 2014, Christians of Qaraqosh fled just hours before Islamic fighters overran the area.



ISIS practically destroyed the entire town over the next two years, turning almost every church into their playground of evil.



"Evidently, they didn't have enough explosives to blow it down," Horan said. "They used a courtyard down here for a shooting range."



"They took artifacts from the church, sacred relics -- some of them hundreds of years old -- and used them, literally, for target practice, spending thousands, tens of thousands of rounds out in this courtyard practicing how to kill people," he said.