{"id":11428,"date":"2015-11-06T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T10:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=11428"},"modified":"2015-11-06T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T10:25:43","slug":"next-week-being-a-priest-in-iraq-is-tantamount-to-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2015\/11\/06\/next-week-being-a-priest-in-iraq-is-tantamount-to-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBeing a priest in Iraq is tantamount to suicide\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Brazil\u2019s iconic landmark, the world-famous statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, was floodlit in red light From Sunday to Monday last week<strong>. T<\/strong>he aim was to draw attention to the plight of modern Christian martyrs. This was the explanation given by the Brazilian national office of the international Catholic pastoral charity <strong><em>Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).<\/em><\/strong> To mark the occasion in Brazil, Father Douglas celebrated Holy Mass in the chapel that forms part of the complex of the Christ the Redeemer statue.<\/p>\n<p>Father Douglas Bazi of the Chaldean Catholic Church visited \u00a0the Brazilian office of ACN. He was able to report first-hand on the situation of Christians in Iraq. \u201cTo be a Christian in Iraq is dangerous. To be a priest in Iraq is tantamount to suicide\u201c, he told them.<\/p>\n<p>Father Douglas runs a centre for Christian refugees in the city of Erbil in northern Iraq. In summer last year (2014) more than 120,000 Christians were forced to flee the terrorism of the armed militias of the so-called \u201cIslamic state\u201c and seek refuge in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of northern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>He expressly thanked ACN for its support of his work.\u201dYou do not know my people\u201c, he said, \u201cbut my people know you, because of the help you are giving us for our housing, schooling and food\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/photo-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11429\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/photo-16.jpg\" alt=\"photo-1\" width=\"253\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s iconic landmark, the world-famous statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, was floodlit in red light From Sunday to Monday last week. 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