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| Published: December 25, 2007, 4:47 pm |
| Tags: journalism, catholicism, worship |
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One of my favorite reporters covering the Iraq War is the New York Times’ Damien Cave. One of his two stories for today’s paper is about a Christmas service in Baghdad. Cave skillfully packs details into his account of the festival service: Inside the beige church guarded by the men with the AK-47s, a choir sang Christmas songs in Arabic. An old woman in black closed her eyes while a girl in a cherry-red dress, with tights and shoes to match, craned her neck toward rows of empty pews near the back. “Last year it was full,” said Yusef Hanna, a parishioner. “So many people have left — gone up north, or out of the country.” Sacred Heart Church is not Iraq’s largest or most beleaguered Christian congregation. It is as ordinary as its steeple is squat, in one of Baghdad’s safest neighborhoods, with a small school next door. But the congregation faces struggles, Cave explains. Christians have been persecuted in the post-Saddam Iraq [ Full article ] |
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