Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Abbreviating and Sealing Off Christmas in Iraq

Iraqi Christians attended the last Sunday mass before Christmas at Joseph Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad. Photo by Eros Hoagland for The New York Times.

Excerpt:

“For Christians in Iraq, this will be a year of canceled holiday celebrations and of Christmas masses spent under the protective watch of police officers and soldiers because of a spate of threats by extremist groups to bomb churches on Christmas Day.”

Go here to read the story.

1 comment:

  1. Did you read my blog where rabbis were trying to shut down Christmas in Jerusalem? Muslims aren't the only ones attacking Christian religious practices..

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