Iraqi Christians attended services in Baghdad on Friday at the Sacred Church of Jesus, a Chaldean Catholic church. Others stayed home, fearing violence.
Iraqi Christians attended services in Baghdad on Friday at the Sacred Church of Jesus, a Chaldean Catholic church. Others stayed home, fearing violence.
The congregants on Friday night were fewer than 100, in a sanctuary built for four or five times as many. But they were determined. This year, even more than in the past, Iraqi’s dwindling Christian minority had reasons to stay home for Christmas.
“Yes, we are threatened, but we will not stop praying,” the Rev. Meyassr al-Qaspotros told the Christmas Eve crowd at the Sacred Church of Jesus, a Chaldean Catholic church. “We do not want to leave the country because we will leave an empty space.”
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