An Iraqi bishop’s four-week ordeal
February 8, 2018
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Abducted in Iraq by Bishop Saad Sirop Hanna, University of Notre Dame Press, 184pp, £25 On Sunday November 17, 2007,
The slow-motion genocide of Iraqi Christians
January 11, 2018
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The Church in Iraq by Cardinal Fernando Filoni, translated by Edward Condon, Catholic University of America, 277pp, £16.95 I have
The Iraqi poet fascinated by Christ
August 25, 2016
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Christians and Muslims have much in common, not only because of their shared humanity, and not only because both Christianity
The priest who forgave his Islamist torturers
May 26, 2016
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Fr Douglas Al-Bazi’s torturers asked him why he wasn’t afraid of death. He told them: ‘For me, death is the beginning. But for you it is the end’
How a priest forgave his Islamist torturers
May 26, 2016
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It’s 1998 and a young Iraqi, Douglas Al-Bazi, is being ordained to the priesthood in a joyous ceremony. Fast-forward nine