52 Murdered in Baghdad

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Iraqi security forces stormed a Baghdad church where militants had taken an entire congregation hostage for four hours, leaving at least 52 people dead, including a priest, Iraqi officials said Monday. It was not immediately clear whether the hostages died at the hands of the attackers or during the rescue late on Sunday night in an affluent neighborhood of the capital. The incident began when militants wearing suicide vests and armed with grenades attacked the Iraqi stock exchange at dusk Sunday before turning their attention to the nearby Our Lady of Deliverance church — one of Baghdad’s main Catholic places of worship — taking about 120 Christians hostage. Officials said at least one priest and 10 policemen were among the dead. Many of the 62 wounded were women.

Hab. 1:1-4 comes to mind…

“The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw.  How long, LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

4 thoughts on “52 Murdered in Baghdad”

  1. I wonder if any American fundamentalists see the irony in the fact that their war has led to the extermination of nearly all Iraq Christians, who once numbered well over a million. Then again, if you don’t go to an evangelical church and haven’t said the Magic Words (sinner’s prayer), you’re not a Real True Christian to them.

    This is hardly the first time it’s happened. Until the end of WW2, the majority of Japan’s Christians lived in two cities — Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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    • christianity in iraq has been virtually destroyed- by so called christian presidents in the us and their un-christian policies.

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  3. I agree Jim, our ‘elite’ don’t, won’t or can’t offer this vulnerable minority group protection.

    Here is a stat that I sometimes blog:

    In the seven years since the Iraq War was launched, 2,000 Christians have been murdered and 600,000 have fled Iraq, according to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. 44% of Iraqi refugees are Christians, and many of the 600,000 Christians who remain are internally displaced persons who have had to flee their homes.

    This was obviously from a couple of years ago and now things are worse.

    I hold the politicians directly responsible for this.

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