{"id":1587,"date":"2010-12-30T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-31T06:47:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T06:47:24","slug":"iraqi-christians-killed-in-series-of-baghdad-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/iraqi-christians-killed-in-series-of-baghdad-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Christians killed in series of Baghdad attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least two Christians were killed and 12 people wounded in a series of attacks on Christian homes in Baghdad, according to Iraq’s interior ministry.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
 By Our Foreign Staff <\/span>8:01PM GMT 30 Dec 2010<\/span><\/p>\n
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The worst attack was in the central Baghdad district of Al-Ghadir, where a homemade bomb exploded around 8pm (1700 GMT), killing the two Christians and wounding three others, including one Christian, an official from the ministry said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Al-Ghadir is an area with a significant Christian population, though many have fled following the massacre and in light of threats by al-Qaeda to target them. The number of Christians left in Iraq <\/b>is estimated at between 450,000 and 500,000, including around 300,000 Roman Catholics (down from 387,000 in 1980).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Between 800,000 and 1.2 million Christians lived in Iraq in 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Iraq is still recovering from a massacre at a Baghdad cathedral in October. A group of Islamist extremists burst into the church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad, murdering two priests, holding the congregation hostage and eventually killing more than 50 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The pope, in his annual Christmas message, urged political leaders to express solidarity with Christians in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the latest deaths, the number of civilians killed this year from violence in Iraq is due to be the lowest since the 2003 US-led invasion, according to a preliminary report released by Iraq Body County, an independent British-based group. They put the number of civilian deaths in Iraq as of December 25 at 3,976, down from 4,680 in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: The Telegraph<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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