this man came home to kara koch a week ago and has yet to recover. the shock. felt pain, he recalls. my eyes filled with tears. she is back just for mass. and says this is the first time i returned to this church and then she's at a loss for words. ♪ >> reporter: the archbishop struggled to represent residents through the trauma but worries the specter of isis still hovers nearby. >> translator: we expected everything in kara koch, theft, damage and destruction, he tells me but arson for us is a message, a threatening message that the idea of isis is still here in the region, and that's what we fear. today, this once prosperous christian community is a ghost town of empty streets, blown out buildings, gutted shops. everywhere reminders of isis' hatred for everything kara cush stood for. workers haverectomied a large cross at one of the main rounds about to signal the town's liberation but it's just a symbol. >> before isis took over the town in the summer of 2014, more than 60,000 people called it home. now, months after it was liberated, only a handful of fami