From USA TODAY:
Priest Wasseem Sabeeh was halfway through Sunday Mass, in Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad, when an explosion shook the church. Suddenly men with guns yelling Islamic prayers burst into the church. They fired at the priests, congregants, even murals of Mary and the saints…
A terrorist group that calls itself the Islamic State of Iraq, which is linked to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack. The group seeks the establishment of harsh Islamic law in Iraq and says all Iraqi Christians are targets for jihad. Horrified by the threat, many Christians are telling their religious leaders that they plan to go…
The four-hour ordeal Oct. 31 at Our Lady of Salvation, which left 50 people dead, was only the bloodiest of numerous terrorist attacks targeting Iraq’s Christian communities in the past year. The terrorists, who have also killed hundreds of Muslims in bombings in the past several months, have stepped up the targeting of Christians in recent weeks…
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