January 17, 2005
Targeting Christians
With all the fighting between Shi'a and Sunni groups in Iraq, we can forget that it has become a more dangerous place for indigenous Christians. Yesterday, Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, of the Syrian Catholic Church, was seized while walking in front of his church.
Sadly, as the murder of Margaret Hassan made clear, the terrorists hold Christians in at least as much disregard as those subject to their internecine warfare. Pray for his deliverance from evil.
I'm sure that short of a miracle, Archbishop Casmoussa will face martyrdom. Fortunately, his would not be a martyrdom based upon false hopes of sex with 72 white virgins. No, he will be hoping to see the Virgin Mother of God and with her worship her son, the true and living God.
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