No Christmas festivities in northern Iraqi city

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http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=33978

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Kirkuk, Dec. 13 (FIDES/CWNews.com) - It will be a Christmas of prayer for Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, but there will be no public festivities there among Chaldean Catholics worried by rising violence and a constant exodus of Christians, the Fides news service reports.

Chaldean Archbishop Luis Sako told Fides: "We are praying and preparing to commemorate the birth of our Lord and we hope it will be a Christmas of peace, but our community is still suffering and no one feels like celebrating."

The archbishop continued: "Because many of our families have lost members in attacks by fundamentalists on churches in Mosul and Baghdad, we have decided not to organize the usual festivities, but simply to pray all through Christmas for peace in our land." He added: "This is also an act of solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters who had to forego the usual parties to mark the al-Fitr, feast at the end of Ramadan."

[Inland]

1. Somehow, Fox News will blame this on secular humanists, gays

[Anakin Skywalker]

2. Damn Right!

All the rightwingers do that. Somehow, all of this world's f***ing problems are caused by liberals and non-religious people. That's dogma for ya!