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Mon 11 Nov 2010Iraqi Catholics attend Mass at site of recent slaughter
IRAQI CHALDEAN Catholics yesterday celebrated evening Mass in the battered church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad, where 52 parishioners were slain last Sunday by al-Qaeda gunmen.
In a morning service in London, Iraqi Orthodox archbishop Athanasios Dawood issued an appeal to Iraqi Christians – a community that traces its history to the first century after Christ – to flee their country, and called upon Britain to grant them asylum. Al-Qaeda has vowed their “extermination”, and pledged to carry out attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt.
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