The Iraqi churches in Baghdad witnessed a notable decrease in the number of worshippers who took part in yesterday’s mass, the first Sunday after the simultaneous attacks which targeted 6 churches in Baghdad and Musil in which 10 persons were killed and more than other 40 were injured.
Seats at ” Virgin Mary” Church were almost empty except for very few number of worshippers who attended the mass. Under the shock of the attacks of last Sunday, Iraqi Christians prayed for peace and lit candles.
The audience were also few in the Armenian church where remains of a car destroyed in last Sunday’s aggressions are there.
Rev Antoine Atamian who chaired the mass in the church where number of audience receded to one third said that the Christians should not leave Iraq despite the recent attacks against them. He said:” we have paid in blood the price for our love to Iraq.” He added ” We are not concerned over physical death, we are scared of the death of the principles of love and amity and sympathy which all constitute the spirit of Iraq.”
In the Syriac- Catholic Church in Baghdad, workers gathered to repair damages inflected by the attack which targeted it. The mass which was held in a nearby hall was attended by 70 persons out of 1,000 believers used to attend it. Priest Raphael Qatteimi said:” They want to kill people in the churches, eventually this will affect our members.”
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