In an act of brotherhood, Iraqi Muslims are offering a helping hand to their Christian brethren by rebuilding churches and other religious items that were desecrated by ISIS.

Christian Today reported that Muslims residing in the city of Mosul have come to help their neighbors, who were badly afflicted by the war, get their normal lives back. One Muslim even helped rebuild a crucifix inside a church that was destroyed by the terror group.

"Inside this church that ISIS has just come in and completely destroyed, here inside Mosul city limits, we found this cross that our friend Marwan helped fashion out of these two pieces of metal," said Jeremy Courtney, co-founder and executive director of the Preemptive Love Coalition (PLC) in a video posted on their Instagram account. PLC is a faith-oriented charity group helping out the victims of atrocities in Iraq.

Courtney also stressed that even though he is a Muslim, Marwan found it hard to "accept the fact that these other guys who claimed to be Muslims were rampaging through this place, destroying the signs and the icons of his Christian friends, his Christian compatriots, his Christian neighbours."

Courtney went on, saying, "Marwan helps fashion this cross together just to say... [to] his Christian neighbours and [on behalf of] his Muslim neighbours, his Muslim faith: 'We're in this with you. This cross stands for something. This cross belongs here in our country. This cross belongs here among our friends.'"

Despite the dangers, the non-profit organization has also assisted suspected ISIS militants, under the mandate "Love anyway," which goes beyond religion and creed, the report added.

According to a report from The Christian Post last November, Iraqi Christians displaced by the jihadists started to return home to worship in the damaged and violated churches. Apart from the city of Mosul, the town Qaraqosh, which is home to Iraq's largest Christian community, was also liberated last September. The town's Assyrian Christians also sent a congratulatory letter to president-elect Donald Trump and asked for his support in the creation of the Nineveh Plains province.