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Christmas Mass in Mosul

24/12/2017 GMT

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Patriarch of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic church hopes Christians will return to Mosul

The Patriarch of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic church, Louis Raphael Sako, has celebrated Christmas mass in the Iraqi city of Mosul for the first time since the so-called Islamic State group were driven out of the city. He said he hoped Christians would feel able to return to the city.  

Also in the programme: Turkey issues a decree giving civilians who helped stop the 2016 attempted coup immunity from prosecution and a special Christmas dinner among Palestinians.

Picture: Iraqi clergymen attend a Christmas mass at the Saint Paul's church in Mosul  Credit: AHMAD MUWAFAQ/AFP/Getty Images)

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