BAGHDAD | AirMaria.com https://dev.airmaria.com Breathe Freely Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:16:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://airmaria.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/28143228/amicon-r-100x100.png BAGHDAD | AirMaria.com https://dev.airmaria.com 32 32 News – Persecution of Catholics in Iraq https://dev.airmaria.com/2010/11/01/news-persecution-of-catholics-in-iraq/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:14:38 +0000 http://airmaria.com/?p=15588 Fifty-two dead in siege of Catholic church in Baghdad BAGHDAD (AP) — The toll from the bloody siege of a Baghdad church rose Monday to 52 dead with dozens more injured, Iraqi officials...

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BAGHDAD (AP) — The toll from the bloody siege of a Baghdad church rose Monday to 52 dead with dozens more injured, Iraqi officials said.

The standoff began at dusk Sunday when militants wearing suicide vests and armed with grenades attacked the nearby Iraqi stock exchange and then entered the nearby Our Lady of Deliverance church — one of Baghdad’s main Catholic places of worship — taking about 120 Christians hostage.

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