Bittersweet Christmas for Iraq’s Christians after Islamic State defeat – Christian Today December 29, 2017 by Fulcrum Inside the newly renovated Church of Saint George in the Northern Iraqi town of Teleskof, Hayat Chamoun Daoud led children dressed as Santa Claus singing Jingle Bells in Aramaic. Like every other resident of Teleskof, this was Daoud's first Christmas back home in three years, since Islamic State militants overran her town and forcibly displaced its 12,000-strong Chaldean Christian community. Reuters on Christian Today. 25 December 2017 FulcrumShareTweetShare