Christian town in north Iraq offers refuge
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
QARA QOSH — For hundreds of terrified Christian families who fled attacks in Baghdad and Mosul in recent months, an ancient Christian town in Iraq’s north has offered a safe haven from violence.
Qara Qosh, which lies east of Mosul in Nineveh province, took in hundreds of families after an Oct. 31 massacre in a Baghdad church claimed by al-Qaeda.
Forty-four worshippers and two priests were killed in the incident that terrorized the minority and drew condemnation from Iraq’s top Muslim clergy.
While most families fled from the capital and Mosul, Iraq’s two biggest cities, others arrived here from the ethnically mixed oil city of Kirkuk and even as far south as the Shiite Muslim majority port city of Basra, according to Bishop Georges Casmoussa, Qara Qosh’s top Christian leader..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110302com5.html
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