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An Iraqi Christian woman prays outside the Sayidat al-Nejat church in Baghdad on December 10, 2010 as people gather for a mass at the church where 46 worshippers died in an Al-Qaeda siege
Monday, Dec. 13, 2010

Open quoteTheir faith in God is strong. It is their faith in the government that has weakened.Close quote

  • THE REV. GABRIELE TOOMA,
  • head of the Monastery of the Virgin Mary in Qosh, northern Iraq, which has opened its rooms to some of the thousands of Iraqi Christians who have fled Baghdad and Mosul amid a campaign of violence against them
Photo: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP / Getty Images | Source: New York Times