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Killer of archbishop receives death penalty despite church opposition

by Sean Reilly | May 22, 2008

An al-Qaeda leader in Iraq has been sentenced to death for the killing of the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho – despite the church’s opposition to the death penalty. The Iraqi government said the criminal court had imposed the death...

Archbishop’s death could ‘force Iraqi church underground’

by Sean Reilly | Mar 14, 2008

The news that Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho in Iraq has been killed could force the Church underground, say Iraqi Christians in Need (ICIN). The Chaldean Catholic archbishop was kidnapped on February 29 soon after he left Mass in Mosul. Three people who had been with...
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