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#367470 - 08/02/11 09:13 PM Kirkuk Iraq bomb exploded near Holy Family Syro-Catholic Church
likethethief Offline
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08/02/2011 14:14
IRAQ
Christians “sad and in shock,” Mgr Sako says after car bomb explodes at Kirkuk church, wounding 15
The bomb causes major damages to Syro-Catholic church. Children and clergymen are among the wounded. A second car bomb set to go off near an Evangelical church is defused. A “sacred place” and “innocent people” were targeted, Kirkuk archbishop says.


Full story here

Gospodi, pomiluj!

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#367479 - 08/03/11 02:10 AM Re: Kirkuk Iraq bomb exploded near Holy Family Syro-Catholic Church [Re: likethethief]
Irish Melkite Offline
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Prayers for our Syriac, Chaldean, and Assyrian brethren and all Christians in Iraq, that they be able to worship in peace and safety.

Prayers especially for all those wounded in this attack.

Many years,

Neil
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"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."

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#367512 - 08/04/11 03:57 AM Re: Kirkuk Iraq bomb exploded near Holy Family Syro-Catholic Church [Re: Irish Melkite]
Fr Serge Keleher Offline
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God be merciful to us, and give us the grace to forgive our enemies.

There's talk of some of the Iraqi Christians coming to Ireland.

Fr. Serge

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