Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Tens of citizens participated in the funeral service of Father Youssef Adel, the parish priest of Orthodox Assyrian St Peter and Paul Church amidst preventive measures imposed by security forces. Father Adel was assassinated on Saturday in Sinaa Street in Karrada. Condemnations to the assassination poured in. Pope Benedict XVI sent a condolence letter to Assyrian parish expressing his deep sorrow over the assassination of Father Adel.
Iraqi Christians joined in mourning after a Syrian Orthodox priest was murdered in Baghdad on April 5.
Father Yusef Adel was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in the Iraqi capital. The killing occurred less than 3 weeks after Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Faraj Raho was found dead, after having been kidnapped from outside his cathedral in Mosul.
Syrian Orthodox Bishop Matti Shaba Matoka presided at the funeral for Father Adel, with Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly and the apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Francis Chulikatt, representing the city's Catholic leadership...
The campaign of violence and intimidation against Christians has taken an enormous toll. The number of Christians living in Iraq today is estimated at under 500,000—roughly half what it was before the start of the war in 2003.
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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Assyrian Orthodox priest assassinated in Iraq
From Alsumaria Iraqi Satellite TV Network, April 6:
More details from Catholic World News, April 7: