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22 febbraio 2010

News from Iraq

By Baghdadhope*

Sources of the news: Ankawa.com, Eyeiraq.com, Karemlash.com


The body riddled with bullets of Adnan Al Dahan was found by police in Mosul in the neighborhood of Hay Al Sadiq. The shopkeeper was kidnapped on February 13 from his shop in the eastern district of Al Hadba' and there had been no news of him until the discovery of the corpse. The violence against Christians in Iraq, however, are not only killings. Today the students of the University of Mosul who daily reach it from the almost entirely Christian village of Baghdida deserted the lessons because of threats of terrorist acts. At the beginning of January a bomb damaged a bus in a garage in Mosul before its leaving for Baghdida and the explosion injured 5 students, and another bomb hidden behind a wheel of a bus was detonated by police bomb disposal experts while the vehicle was still near the village. To compensate, albeit little, this sad news coming from Iraq, there are those of the next opening of the first Christian radio in the country, the New Testament Radio, which will broadcast from the Anglican church in Basra, and that of the construction of a pedestrian bridge that will connect the village of Karamles (about 30 miles from Mosul) to the ancient church of Saint Barbara avoiding the many accidents that in recent years affected the faithful run over by cars on this dangerous stretch of road.