ICEJ NEWS:
Let us be in prayer! Bakufa, a tiny village in northern Iraq, is under the control of a Christian Assyrian administration following the retreat last month my gunmen from the Islamic State (IS, formally ISIS) terror militia before a counter-offensive by Kurdish Peshmerga forces. The Kurds assisted the Christians in setting up a self-defense militia, which calls itself the Dwekh Nawsha, or “self-sacrifice” in Assyrian. “We must depend on ourselves to defend our land for now and the future,” one milita member told the AP. “We came here … to protect our Christian brothers and their homes,” said Abdul Rahman Kawriny, the local peshmerga brigade commander. “There is constant cooperation and assistance. We are always together.”
