The Religion of Peace™ strikes again.

ERBIL – Islamic State (ISIS) extremists demolished an Assyrian Church in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh Governorate on Sunday. Barbara Fouq Attal Church was in the town of Karmlis, near Mosul city.

“[ISIS] jihadists detonated a number of explosive devices inside the church on Sunday afternoon,” human rights activist Ghazi Shamoun said. “The church was completely destroyed.”

The Assyrian town of Karmlis and adjacent Christian villages have been completely depopulated since ISIS invaded Nineveh Governorate in June 2014. Thousands of Christian families fled their hometowns as ISIS advanced, taking shelter in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Shamoun told ARA News that, ISIS “terrorists have destroyed dozens of Assyrian churches and archeological sites in Nineveh in a bid to eliminate the historical identity of the area.”